Christ the King Sunday

Seven Acts of Mercy

BRUEGEL, Pieter the Younger

1664 - 1638

Private Collectiion

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20201121897096163&code=ACT&RC=57786&Row=12

 

The composition of this painting is based on a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Nine autograph versions of it are known.

https://www.wga.hu/html_m/b/bruegel/pieter_y/2/sevenact.html

 

Caritas, The Seven Acts of Mercy, pen and ink drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559.

 Anticlockwise from lower right: 

feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, ransom the captive, bury the dead, 

shelter the stranger, comfort the sick, and clothe the naked

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_of_mercy

 

 

 

 

 

Paige's Silver Sneakers class is online and I huffed and puffed … and sat a lot.

I’ll try it again next week

 

 

 

Our Rotary Book Club had a very interesting discussion about 

Leadership in Turbulent Times, by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

 

 

 

 

Gretchen MacArthur announced at Rotary that they are moving to a new home near DIA.

We shall really miss them!

 

 

Our Rotary program this week ...

 

Our speaker, Kent Drotar, Public Relations Director

 

The Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado, has 789 acres of natural habitats for hundreds of 

wild animals that have been rescued from horrific captive situations.  They also operate two 

other facilities and combined, the encompass more than ten thousand acres!

Currently, they care for more than 600 lions, tigers, bears, wolves, and other animals.

 

https://www.wildanimalsanctuary.org

 

 

 

Another Robin creation!

 

 

 

 

 

 

O thou who hast given us so much,

mercifully grant us one thing more … a grateful heart.

~ George Herbert

 

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 with Psalm 100 or
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 with Psalm 95:1-7a
Ephesians 1:15-23
Matthew 25:31-46

 

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

For thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited parts of the land.

I will feed them with good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel shall be their pasture; there they shall lie down in good grazing land, and they shall feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord GOD.

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice. Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide, I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be ravaged; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.

And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.

Psalm 100

Make a joyful noise to God
   all the earth.

Worship God with gladness;
   come into God's presence
with singing.

Know that the Sovereign
   is God.
It is God that made us,
   and we are God's;

we are God's people,
   and the sheep of God's pasture.

Enter God's gates
   with thanksgiving,
and enter God's courts
   with praise.
Give thanks to God,
   and bless God's name.

For God is good;
   God's steadfast love
endures forever,
   and God's faithfulness
to all generations.

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

For thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited parts of the land.

I will feed them with good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel shall be their pasture; there they shall lie down in good grazing land, and they shall feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord GOD.

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice. Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide, I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be ravaged; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.

And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken.

Psalm 95:1-7a

O come, let us sing
   to God;
let us make a joyful noise
   to the rock of our salvation!

Let us come into God's presence
   with thanksgiving;
let us make a joyful noise
   to God with songs of praise!

For God is a great God,
   and a great Ruler above all gods.

In God's hand are the depths
   of the earth;
the heights of the mountains
   are also God's.

The sea is God's,
   for God made it,
and the dry land,
   which God's hands have formed.

O come, let us worship
   and bow down,
let us kneel before God,
   our Maker!

For God is our God,
   and we are the people
of God's pasture,
   and the sheep of God's hand.

Ephesians 1:15-23

I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, and for this reason I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers. I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his great power.

God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come. And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Matthew 25:31-46

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left.

Then the king will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.' Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?' And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.'

Then he will say to those at his left hand, 'You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' Then they also will answer, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?' Then he will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.' And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."