Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Evelyn here,

with the a portion of Mass readings for last Sunday.

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READING
JEREMIAH  38:4-6, 8-10

In those days, the princes said to the king:
“Jeremiah ought to be put to death;
he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in this city,
and all the people, by speaking such things to them;
he is not interested in the welfare of our people,
but in their ruin.”
King Zedekiah answered: “He is in your power”;
for the king could do nothing with them.
And so they took Jeremiah
and threw him into the cistern of Prince Malchiah,
which was in the quarters of the guard,
letting him down with ropes.
There was no water in the cistern, only mud,
and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

Ebed-melech, a court official,
went there from the palace and said to him:
“My lord king,
these men have been at fault
in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah,
casting him into the cistern.
He will die of famine on the spot,
for there is no more food in the city.”
Then the king ordered Ebed-melech the Cushite
to take three men along with him,
and draw the prophet Jeremiah out of the cistern before
he should die.

GOSPEL
LUKE 12:49-53

Jesus said to his disciples:
“I have cometo set the earth on fire,
and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,
and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided,
three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son
and a son against his father,
a mother against her daughter
and a daughter against her mother,
a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

 

Painting: Jeremiah In Dungeon by Unknown Artist

New American Bible

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Psalm: Sunday 30

August 19, 2007

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Evelyn out.

Nineteenth Sunday in Oridinary Time

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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.
 

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Evelyn here,

Below is the gospel reading for last Sunday, the Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

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The Gospel

Luke 12:13-21

 

Someone in the crowd said to Jesus,

“Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.”

He replied to him,

“Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?”

Then he said to the crowd,

“Take care to guard against all greed,

for though one may be rich,

one’s life does not consist of possessions.”

 

Then he told them a parable.

“There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest.

He asked himself, ‘What shall I do,

for I do not have space to store my harvest?’

And he said, ‘This is what I shall do:

I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones.

There I shall store all my grain and other goods

and I shall say to myself, “Now as for you,

you have so many good things stored up for many years,

rest, eat, drink, be merry!”’

But God said to him,

‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you;

and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’

Thus will it be for all who store up treasure for themselves

but are not rich in what matters to God.”

 

 

 

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Psalm: Sunday 28

08.05.07

 

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Evelyn Out.

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Hello Everyone,

Evelyn here,

Below is the Gospel reading for last Sunday.  I moved it from the "A Catholic's Life Homepage" a little early in order to post this sunday's reading.

 

 

The Gospel

Luke 11:1-13

 

Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished,

one of his disciples said to him,

“Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.”

He said to them, “When you pray, say:

Father, hallowed be your name,

your kingdom come.

Give us each day our daily bread

and forgive us our sins

for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us,

and do not subject us to the final test.”

 

And he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend

to whom he goes at midnight and says,

‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey

and I have nothing to offer him,’

and he says in reply from within,

‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked

and my children and I are already in bed.

I cannot get up to give you anything.’

I tell you,

if he does not get up to give the visitor the loaves

because of their friendship,

he will get up to give him whatever he needs

because of his persistence.

 

“And I tell you, ask and you will receive;

seek and you will find;

knock and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks, receives;

and the one who seeks, finds;

and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

What father among you would hand his son a snake

when he asks for a fish?

Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg?

If you then, who are wicked,

know how to give good gifts to your children,

how much more will the Father in heaven

give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

 

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Psalm: Sunday 27

July 29, 2007

 

PORPRAITS OF THE WEEK:

 

Jesus Teaches His Disciples To Pray by Unknown Illustrator of

Lillie A. Faris's 'Standard Bible Story Readers, Book 1-5', 1925-28

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Hello Everyone,

Evelyn here,

Below is the scripture reading for last week's Mass, the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

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GOSPEL
LUKE 10:38-42

Jesus entered a village
where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him.
She had a sister named Mary
who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak.
Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said,
“Lord, do you not care
that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving?
Tell her to help me.”
The Lord said to her in reply,
“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things.
There is need of only one thing.
Mary has chosen the better part
and it will not be taken from her.”
and it will not be taken from her.”
 

                             

                     Painting: Jesus In The House Of Martha And Mary By Unknown Artist
                                             

New American Bible
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Psalm: Sunday 26
07.21.07

Artist Bio:

James Jacques Tissot has quickly become one of my favorite artists and a few
months ago, I featured his work on the BTCC Youth Ministry. Tissot was famous
 for his exquisite paintings of beautiful English women and most people think
he was English. In fact, Jacques-Joseph Tissot was born October 15, 1836 in
Nantes, then a thriving port on the Loire estuary in western France. He
adopted the name James as an anglicized form when living in England. His
friends wereManet and Degas, with whom he shared a teacher in the painting
 school in Paris. From 1885 until his death on August 8, 1902, he becamevery
religious and spent the last 17 years living as recluse painting religious
pictures.

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Evelyn out.

 

The Expert In The Law Stands Up To Test Jesus

hello Everyone,

Evelyn here,

below is the scripture reading from last sunday Mass as post on A Catholic's Life Homepage.

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Gospel

Luke 10:25-37

 

There was a scholar of the law, who stood up to test him and said,

“Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law?

How do you read it?”

He said in reply,

You shall love the Lord, your God,

with all your heart,

with all your being,

with all your strength,

and with all your mind,

and your neighbor as yourself.”

He replied to him, “You have answered correctly;

do this and you will live.”

But because he wished to justify himself,he said to Jesus,

“And who is my neighbor?”

 

 

Jesus replied,

“A man fell victim to robbers

as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.

They stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead.

A priest happened to be going down that road,

but when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.

Likewise a Levite came to the place,

and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side.

But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him

was moved with compassion at the sight.

He approached the victim,

poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them.

Then he lifted him up on his own animal,

took him to an inn, and cared for him.

The next day he took out two silver coins

and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction,

‘Take care of him.

If you spend more than what I have given you,

I shall repay you on my way back.’

Which of these three, in your opinion,

was neighbor to the robbers’ victim?”

He answered, “The one who treated him with mercy.”

Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

 

 

New American Bible

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Psalm: Sunday 25

 

 

Painting by

The Expert In The Law Stands Up To Test Jesus

Artist:  Tissot, James 1886-96

And

The Parable Of The Good Samaritan, 1575 by Francesco Bassano

 

"What Jesus Saw from the Cross" A painting by James Jacques Tissot

Hello Everyone,

Evelyn here,

By now, many of you have guessed that I am a great admirer of medieval and renaissance art. Over the years, I have developed an unquenchable passion for the artworks of several painters from those times. My taste is art of the period runs the works of  many well-known lay painters, whose daily earned their livelihoods in cities like Paris, Florence, and Venice, to the little known artists, who were priests or monks and whom painters- many which were murals and sculptures - graced the cells of many long forgotten monasteries across Christian Europe.

The painting below is another of the noted French painter James Jacques Tissot entitled, “What Jesus Saw from the Cross.” This painting is breath taking and it awakens the viewer’s perspective of what was to be Christ at Calvary. To really experience the full affect of this marvelous painting click the link. If you are using IE7, you might have to click the painting to see it in full view, which I recommend.

http://hometown.aol.com/Astptevelyn/James+Jacques+JosephTissot.jpg

                 

James Jacques Tissot has quickly become one of my favorite artists and a few months ago, I featured his work on the BTCC Youth Ministry. Tissot was famous for his exquisite paintings of beautiful English women and most people think he was English. In fact, Jacques-Joseph Tissot was born October 15, 1836 in Nantes, then a thriving port on the Loire estuary in western France. He adopted the name James as an anglicized form when living in England. His friends were Manet and Degas, with whom he shared a teacher in the painting school in Paris. From 1885 until his death on August 8, 1902, he became very religious and spent the last 17 years living as recluse painting religious pictures.

 

Evelyn out.