Nineteenth Sunday in Oridinary Time

Hello Everyone,

Evelyn here,

with the last week's gospel reading, the Nineteenth Sunday in Oridinary Time. I introduced a new artist from the past, Alexandre Bida.

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                                                     FEATURED ARTIST

Alexandre Bida (F. Alexandre Bida) was born in Toulouse, Frances in 1813  and was a painter of the Romantic  period. He specialized in Orientalism  and studied under Eugene Delacroix, but with an artist’s eye for precision and perfection, he soon developed his own style. During Bida’s youth, he traveled and worked in Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, and Palestine. He became well known for his exhibition shows during the period between 1847 and 1861. He was also an illustrator of the Holy Bible. As a Bible illustrator, Bida’s “Les Saints Evangeles” was published in 1873. In it, the four gospels were enriched by his twenty-eight etchings. Of Bida's work, it was said that he brought a truth and genius that made his Christ reverent, refined, dignified, and strong. He died in Buhl, Germany in the year of 1895 at the age of 82.**

 

 

GOSPEL
LUKE  12:32-48

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Do not be afraid any longer, little flock,
for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
Sell your belongings and give alms.
Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out,
an inexhaustible treasure in heaven
that no thief can reach nor moth destroy.
For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

“Gird your loins and light your lamps
and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding,
ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.
Blessed are those servants
whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.
Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself,
have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them.
And should he come in the second or third watch
and find them prepared in this way,
blessed are those servants.
Be sure of this:
if the master of the house had known the hour
when the thief was coming,
he would not have let his house be broken into.
You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect,
the Son of Man will come.”

Then Peter said,
“Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?”
And the Lord replied,
“Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward
whom the master will put in charge of his servants
to distribute the food allowance at the proper time?
Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so.
Truly, I say to you, the master will put the servant
in charge of all his property.
But if that servant says to himself,
‘My master is delayed in coming,’
and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants,
to eat and drink and get drunk,
then that servant’s master will come
on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour
and will punish the servant severely
and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
That servant who knew his master’s will
but did not make preparations nor act in accord with his will
shall be beaten severely;
and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will
but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating
shall be beaten only lightly.
Much will be required of the person entrusted with much,
and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.

 

New American Bible

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Psalm: Sunday 29

August 12, 2007

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** Alexandre Bida was compiled  and written by me from the little data I could gather on him at others sites. It was then entered on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and S9.com. No copyrights were violated.

I updated the data on Bida in theWikipedia  with reliable citations links two nights ago.

Evelyn out.