#Simon Petrus

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Simon Peter there on the shore, without a catch after a long night, fisherman whom the unknown caller makes a fisher of men: pray that our gifts may also have purpose and measure in Christ, that your zeal may burn in us and our hearts may recognise the Lord. Simon Peter, often tormented by weakness, fear and failure, you, whose word and purpose are broken when the Lord chooses suffering: pray that we may feel remorse when we lose Jesus' way, that we may not trust our strength and look to Christ in the storm.

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Simon Petrus dort am Ufer, ohne Fang nach langer Nacht, Fischer, den der fremde Rufer sich zum Menschenfischer macht: bitte, dass auch unsre Gaben Ziel und Maß in Christus haben, dass in uns dein Eifer brennt und das Herz den Herrn erkennt. Simon Petrus, oft von Schwächen, Angst und Misserfolg gequält, du, dem Wort und Vorsatz brechen, als der Herr die Leiden wählt: bitte, dass wir Reue spüren, wenn wir Jesu Weg verlieren, dass wir unsrer Kraft nicht trauen und im Sturm auf Christus schauen.

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Simon Petrus – I Petrus, 1:24 (Sacrae Scripturae)

Διότι πᾶσα σὰρξ ὡς χόρτος, καὶ πᾶσα δόξα ἀνθρώπου ὡς ἄνθος χόρτου· ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος, καὶ τὸ ἄνθος αὐτοῦ ἐξέπεσε.

[LAT] Quia omnis caro ut faenum, et omnis gloria eius tamquam flos faeni: exaruit faenum et flos decidit.

[HIS] Porque toda carne es como hierba, y toda la gloria del hombre como flor de la hierba. La hierba se seca, y la flor se cae.

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Daendels Paintings (Part 1)

Hi guyss!! ✨️ I think its time for me to share some painting of Daendels since I haven't done one before until now 😭 I'm planning to divide them into different categories? Since there is like 4 or 5 pictures that are technically the same js different texture or the one where he was with other people n bonus one where someone dressed as him for a dutch series (finally😮‍💨) But for now its going to be for paintings of Daendels that very much some people knows 😉

1. Daendels in a french uniform when he held a position of governor-general of Dutch East Indies by Raden Saleh in 1838. Fun fact: This was painted 20 years after his death

2. Daendels in a civilian outfit (?) painted also by Raden Saleh. I'm not sure of the date it was painted but it could be 1838. Fun fact: Same w the first one. He's already dead

3. Daendels during his early years (?) I didn't find any information on when or who painted this

4. Daendels before he started his military career in the French army Painted by Petrus Groenia in 1792. Fun fact : He's 30 yo in this one based on what I've read in a book

5. Daendels after he returned from Russia. The last painting (I think) of him alive. Painted by Simon Jacques Rochard in 1815

This is all for now. Also I promised u guys I'll post the explanation of why Daendels was replaced as a governor-general of Dutch East Indies this week 🫡 so js wait y'all ^^ Thank you guys n have a great day 🌙

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The Night with Her Children Sleep and Death, Simon Petrus Klotz, 1811

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Meine Bücher für März

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Simon Petrus salah satu murid Yesus

Simon Petrus salah satu murid Yesus Simon Petrus lahir di Betsaida, Galilea, sekitar tahun 1 SM. Ayahnya bernama Yohanes atau Yunus. Ia adalah seorang nelayan bersama dengan saudaranya, Andreas, dan teman-temannya, Yakobus dan Yohanes. Simon Petrus dipanggil menjadi murid Yesus oleh saudaranya, Andreas, yang juga murid Yohanes Pembaptis. Yesus memberinya nama baru, Kefas, yang berarti batu…

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💛 Queer Books by Black Authors 💚

[ List Under the Cut ]

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The Night with her Children, Sleep and Death (1811)

— by Simon Petrus Klotz

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Guest Post from John Martin Rare Book Room

Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

When classes visit, I usually set out several books on a particular subject or time period. Students often ask why some of the books are so much larger than others, especially if one of our "elephant" books is out - folios ranging roughly from 55 to 100 cm (22 to 39 in).

This got me thinking about just what our largest and smallest books might be. As of January 2023, the largest and smallest bound books in the JMRBR collection are the 1747 Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis human (76 cm/30 in) by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770) and the 1527 Anatomice, sive Historia corporis humani (11 cm/4 in) by Alessandro Benedetti (ca. 1450-1512), respectively.

ALBINUS, BERNHARD SIEGFRIED (1697-1770). Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani [Diagrams of the skeleton and muscles of the human body]. Printed in Leiden by Johannes & Herman Verbeek, 1747. 98 pages [40 illustrations]. 76 cm tall.

Let's start with our big book of anatomy. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus was a Dutch physician, anatomist, and professor of medicine who lived during the last half of the 17th century and the first part of the 18th. He was part of a physician anatomist family, along with his father, Bernhard Albinus, and brothers, Frederick Bernhard Albinus and Christiaan Bernhard Albinus.

Albinus started his studies at the University of Leiden at the age of 12. He studied under some of the most famous medical minds of the day, including Bidloo and Boerhaave, and eventually in Paris with Frederik Ruysch and Jacques-Bénigne Winslow. Albinus then succeeded his father as the professor of the practice of medicine at the University of Leiden, while his brother Frederick, succeeded Albinus as the chair of anatomy.

Albinus wrote many works, but none were as famous or controversial as the monumental Tabulae. It took twenty-two years to make and a great deal of Albinus's own money. He worked closely with the artist Jan Wandelaar to create the detailed and occasionally whimsical images in the book.

Albinus was driven to execute his vision for the book and was exacting in his work with Wondelaar. The work became so intense that Wondelaar eventually moved in with Albinus to expedite the process. Unlike many anatomists who published before Albinus, he was interested in creating an idealized form of human anatomy, "homo perfectus." This ideal, as Albinus saw it, meant assembling body parts from different cadavers into a single illustration instead of illustrating a single body.

To help maintain proportion and accuracy, Albinus and Wondelaar developed a hanging grid that was placed in front of the skeletons. To allow for close-up observation to capture finer details, a proportionally smaller grid was placed closer to the skeleton. With Albinus intensely controlling the details of the bodies, some have suggested that Wondelaar must have felt creatively stifled. With Albinus focused on the bodies alone, Wondelaar was then free to express his creativity through the backgrounds.

As can be seen in the illustrations above, he included elements of nature and classical architecture, the most famous of which is his scene including Clara the rhinoceros. Petrus Camper, a contemporary of Albinus and fellow famed Dutch anatomist, was Tabulae's greatest critic. He criticized the book for its method of assembling the "homo perfectus," but mostly for Wondelaar's backgrounds. I suspect Camper was no fun at parties.

BENEDETTI, ALESSANDRO (ca. 1450-1512) Alexandri Benedicti, physici, Anatomice, siue, Historia corporis humani ; ejusdem Collectiones medicinales, seu Aforismi [Anatomice, sive Historia Corporis Humani - Anatomy, or the History of the Human Body]. Printed in Paris by Simon Du Bois, 1527. 167 pages. 11 cm tall.

Now on to our tiny tome, Alessandro Benedetti's Anatomice, sive Historia Corporis Humani from 1527. Benedetti was born around 1450 near Verona, Italy. Unlike Albinus, Benedetti was not born into a medical family but rather a farming family. Regardless, he eventually made his way to Padua and earned his doctorate in medicine.

After practicing for many years in Greece, in 1490 he returned to Padua as the Chair of Anatomy and Surgery. Benedetti's lectures were popular attractions for students, other physicians, and the famous. The Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I (to whom Anatomice was dedicated) attended a lecture in which Benedetti dissected an abdomen. Along with many medical works, he authored a report on the First Italian War (1494-1495) recounting his observations as surgeon general for the League of Italian Princes (the Italian army taking on the invading French army of Charles VIII).

First printed in Venice in 1502, Anatomice, sive Historia Corporis Humani was a hit in the medical community. It deals with many medical and surgical subjects, including gallstones, the opening of the female urethral glands, the passage of the bile into the duodenum, the treatment of syphilis and blennorrhagia (it sounds bad - and it is: excessive discharge of mucus associated with gonorrhea), and a method for safely cutting out bladder stones.

Most notably, Benedetti includes a description of nasal reconstruction by means of a skin flap taken from the arm. The procedure is the same as the one the Branca family practiced in Sicily in the middle of the fifteenth century. The Brancas kept the operation secret and never published it. If this sounds familiar, that's because Tagliacozzi published this so-called "Italian" method in 1597 in his famous De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem which I profiled in the December 2021 newsletter. This method is most often referenced with Taglicozzi, but Benedetti profiled it almost 100 years before him!

Whereas Albinus's book is all about the illustrations, Benedetti's book focuses on the text. But that does not mean it is without fun imagery. The banner image at the top shows a few examples of the many delightful illustrated initials found throughout, except for the initial A which was left unadorned. Seems like an interesting creative choice. Or did something go wrong and the printer needed a quick replacement?

--Damien Ihrig, curator of John Martin Rare Book Room

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Saint Pierre

Saint Pierre, l'apôtre, est une figure bien connue du christianisme primitif. Bien qu'il n'y ait aucune information sur la vie de Pierre en dehors de la Bible, dans la tradition chrétienne, il est souvent dépeint comme le premier à de nombreuses occasions: le premier à être appelé par Jésus, le premier à reconnaître Jésus comme "le Christ", le premier disciple à recevoir une apparition de Jésus après la résurrection et, rétrospectivement, le premier pape de Rome. Il est connu sous les noms de Simon Pierre, Siméon et Simon, fils de Jonas. Paul le désigne souvent sous le nom de Céphas, qui signifie en araméen "rocher" ou "pierre", traduit en latin par"Petrus", Pierre. Dans la tradition biblique, lorsque quelqu'un était appelé par Dieu (ou dans ce cas, par Jésus), cela était suivi d'un changement de nom pour indiquer une nouvelle vision du monde.

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SAINTS OF THE DAY (June 29)

On June 29, the Church celebrates the feast day of Saints Peter and Paul.

As early as the year 258, there is evidence of an already lengthy tradition of celebrating the solemnities of both Saint Peter and Saint Paul on the same day.

Together, the two saints are the founders of the See of Rome, through their preaching, ministry and martyrdom there.

Peter, who was named Simon, was a fisherman of Galilee and was introduced to the Lord Jesus by his brother Andrew, also a fisherman.

Jesus gave him the name Cephas (Petrus in Latin), which means ‘Rock,’ because he was to become the rock upon which Christ would build His Church.

Peter was a bold follower of the Lord.

He was the first to recognize that Jesus was “the Messiah, the Son of the living God” and eagerly pledged his fidelity until death.

In his boldness, he also made many mistakes, however, such as losing faith when walking on water with Christ and betraying the Lord on the night of His passion.

Yet despite his human weaknesses, Peter was chosen to shepherd God's flock.

The Acts of the Apostles illustrates his role as head of the Church after the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ.

Peter led the Apostles as the first Pope and ensured that the disciples kept the true faith.

St. Peter spent his last years in Rome, leading the Church through persecution and eventually being martyred in the year 64.

He was crucified upside-down at his own request, because he claimed he was not worthy to die as his Lord.

He was buried on Vatican hill, and St. Peter's Basilica is built over his tomb.

St. Paul was the Apostle of the Gentiles.

His letters are included in the writings of the New Testament, and through them, we learn much about his life and the faith of the early Church.

Before receiving the name Paul, he was Saul, a Jewish pharisee who zealously persecuted Christians in Jerusalem.

Scripture records that Saul was present at the martyrdom of St. Stephen.

Saul's conversion took place as he was on his way to Damascus to persecute the Christian community there.

As he was traveling along the road, he was suddenly surrounded by a great light from heaven. He was blinded and fell off his horse.

He then heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

He answered: “Who are you, Lord?”

Christ said: “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.”

Saul continued to Damascus, where he was baptized and his sight was restored.

He took the name Paul and spent the remainder of his life preaching the Gospel tirelessly to the Gentiles of the Mediterranean world.

Paul was imprisoned and taken to Rome, where he was beheaded in the year 67.

He is buried in Rome in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.

In a sermon in the year 395, St. Augustine of Hippo said of Saints Peter and Paul:

“Both apostles share the same feast day, for these two were one; and even though they suffered on different days, they were as one. Peter went first, and Paul followed.

And so we celebrate this day made holy for us by the apostles' blood. Let us embrace what they believed, their life, their labors, their sufferings, their preaching, and their confession of faith.”

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Kalender Liturgi 28 Okt 2024

Senin Pekan Biasa XXX

Warna Liturgi: Merah

Bacaan I: Ef 2:19-22

Mazmur Tanggapan: Mzm 19:2-3.4-5

Bacaan Injil: Luk 6:12-19

Bacaan I

Ef 2:19-22

Kamu dibangun di atas dasar para rasul.

Bacaan dari Surat Rasul Paulus kepada Jemaat di Efesus:

Saudara-saudara,

kamu bukan lagi orang asing dan pendatang,

melainkan sewarga dengan orang kudus

dan anggota keluarga Allah.

Kamu dibangun di atas dasar para rasul dan para nabi,

dengan Kristus Yesus sebagai batu penjuru.

Di atas Dia tumbuhlah seluruh bangunan,

yang rapi tersusun,

menjadi bait Allah yang kudus dalam Tuhan.

Di atas Dia pula kamu turut dibangun

menjadi tempat kediaman Allah dalam Roh.

Demikianlah sabda Tuhan.

Mazmur Tanggapan

Mzm 19:2-3.4-5

R:5a

Di seluruh dunia bergemalah suara mereka.

*Langit menceritakan kemuliaan Allah,

dan Cakrawala memberitakan karya tangan-Nya;

hari yang satu mengisahkannya kepada hari yang lain,

dan malam yang satu menyampaikan pengetahuannya

kepada malam berikut.

*Meskipun tidak berbicara,

dan tidak memperdengarkan suara,

namun di seluruh bumi bergaunglah gemanya,

dan amanat mereka sampai ke ujung bumi.

Bacaan Injil

Luk 6:12-19

Yesus memilih dari antara murid-murid-Nya

dua belas orang yang disebut-Nya rasul.

Inilah Injil Suci menurut Lukas:

Sekali peristiwa,

Yesus mendaki sebuah bukit untuk berdoa.

Semalam-malaman Ia berdoa kepada Allah.

Keesokan harinya, ketika hari siang,

Ia memanggil murid-murid-Nya,

lalu memilih dari antara mereka

dua belas orang yang disebut-Nya rasul.

Mereka itu ialah:

Simon yang juga diberi-Nya nama Petrus,

Andreas saudara Simon,

Yakobus dan Yohanes,

Filipus dan Bartolomeus,

Matius dan Tomas,

Yakobus anak Alfeus, dan Simon yang disebut orang Zelot,

Yudas anak Yakobus,

dan Yudas Iskariot yang kemudian menjadi pengkhianat.

Lalu Yesus turun bersama mereka

dan berhenti pada suatu tempat yang datar.

Di situ berkumpul sejumlah besar dari murid-murid-Nya,

dan banyak orang lain

yang datang dari seluruh Yudea dan dari Yerusalem,

dari daerah pantai Tirus dan Sidon.

Mereka datang untuk mendengarkan Dia

dan untuk disembuhkan dari penyakit mereka;

juga mereka yang dirasuk oleh roh-roh jahat beroleh kesembuhan.

Dan orang banyak itu berusaha menjamah Dia,

karena dari pada-Nya keluar suatu kuasa,

dan semua orang itu disembuhkan-Nya.

Demikianlah sabda Tuhan.

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Kalender Liturgi 12 Agt 2024

Senin Pekan Biasa XIX

PF S. Yohana Frasiska dari Chantal

Warna Liturgi: Hijau

Bacaan I: Yeh 1:2-5.24-2:1a

Mazmur Tanggapan: Mzm 148:1-2.11-14

Bait Pengantar Injil: 2Tes 2:14

Bacaan Injil: Mat 17:22-27

Bacaan I

Yeh 1:2-5.24-2:1a

Pengelihatan gambar kemuliaan Tuhan.

Bacaan dari Nubuat Yehezkiel:

Pada tahun kelima sesudah raja Yoyakhin dibuang

pada tanggal lima bulan keempat,

Tuhan bersabda kepada imam Yehezkiel, anak Busi,

di negeri orang Kasdim di tepi sungai Kebar.

Di sana kekuasaan Tuhan meliputi aku.

Aku melihat angin badai bertiup dari utara,

membawa segumpal awan yang besar dengan api yang berkilat,

dan awan itu dikelilingi oleh sinar.

Di dalam, di tengah api itu kelihatan seperti suasa mengkilat.

Dan di tengah-tengah itu juga

ada sesuatu yang menyerupai empat makhluk hidup,

dan nampaknya seperti manusia.

Kalau mereka berjalan,

kudengar suara sayapnya seperti suara air terjun yang menderu,

seperti suara Yang Mahakuasa, seperti keributan laskar yang besar.

Kalau mereka berhenti, sayapnya dibiarkan terkulai.

Maka kedengaranlah suara dari atas cakrawala di atas kepala mereka.

Di atas cakrawala, di atas kepala mereka,

ada sesuatu yang menyerupai takhta,

yang kelihatannya seperti permata lazurit;

dan di atasnya ada sesuatau yang kelihatan seperti rupa manusia.

Dari bagian yang menyerupai pinggang sampai ke atas

aku lihat seperti suasa mengkilat

dan seperti api yang ditudungi sekelilingnya;

dan dari bagian yang menyerupai pinggang itu sampai ke bawah

aku lihat api yang dikelilingi sinar.

Seperti busur pelangi yang terlihat pada musim hujan di awan-awan,

demikianlah kelihatan sinar yang mengelilinginya itu.

Demikianlah pengelihatan gambar kemuliaan Tuhan.

Tatkala melihatnya, aku sujud menyembah.

Lalu kudengar suara Dia yang bersabda,

Sabda-Nya kepadaku,

"Hai anak manusia, bangun dan berdirilah!

Aku hendak berbicara dengan dikau."

Demikianlah sabda Tuhan.

Mazmur Tanggapan

Mzm 148:1-2.11-14

Surga dan bumi penuh kemuliaan-Mu.

*Pujilah Tuhan di surga,

pujilah Dia di tempat tinggi!

Pujilah Dia, hai segala malaikat-Nya,

pujilah Dia, hai segala tentara-Nya!

*Pujilah Tuhan, hai raja-raja di bumi dan segala bangsa,

pembesar-pembesar dan semua pemerintah dunia;

Pujilah Tuhan, hai teruna dan anak-anak dara,

orang tua dan orang muda!

*Biarlah semuanya memuji-muji Tuhan,

sebab hanya nama-Nya yang tinggi luhur,

keagungan-Nya mengatasi bumi dan langit.

*Ia telah meninggikan tanduk umat-Nya,

menjadi puji-pujian bagi semua orang yang dikasihi-Nya,

bagi orang Israel, umat yang dekat pada-Nya.

Bait Pengantar Injil

2Tes 2:14

Alllah memanggil kita,

agar kita memperoleh kemuliaan Tuhan kita Yesus Kristus.

Bacaan Injil

Mat 17:22-27

Ia akan dibunuh, tetapi Ia akan bangkit.

Putera-putera raja bebas dari pajak.

Inilah Injil Suci menurut Matius:

Sekali peristiwa Yesus bersama murid-murid-Nya ada di Galilea.

Ia berkata kepada mereka,

"Anak Manusia akan diserahkan ke dalam tangan manusia;

mereka akan membunuh Dia,

tapi pada hari ketiga Ia akan dibangkitkan."

Maka hati para murid itu pun sedih sekali.

Ketika Yesus dan para murid-Nya tiba di Kapernaum

datanglah seorang pemungut pajak bait Allah kepada Petrus dan berkata,

"Apakah gurumu tidak membayar pajak dua dirham?"

Jawab Petrus, "Memang membayar."

Ketika Petrus masuk rumah,

Yesus mendahuluinya dengan pertanyaan,

"Bagaimana pendapatmu, Simon?

Dari siapa raja-raja dunia ini memungut bea dan pajak?

Dari rakyatnya atau dari orang asing?"

Jawab Petrus, "Dari orang asing!"

Maka kata Yesus kepadanya, "Jadi bebaslah rakyatnya!

Tetapi agar kita jangan menjadi batu sandungan bagi mereka,

pergilah memancing ke danau.

Dan ikan pertama yang kaupancing,

tangkaplah dan bukalah mulutnya,

maka engkau akan menemukan mata uang empat dirham di dalamnya.

Ambillah itu dan bayarlah kepada mereka, bagi-Ku dan bagimu juga."

Demikianlah sabda Tuhan.

[riszellira]

Memorial of Saint Dominic, priest

Reflection: Fallen Yet Redeemed by Grace

During a priest friend’s twenty-fifth anniversary in the priesthood, he said in his thanksgiving speech, “It has been twenty-five years since my bishop laid his hands on my head, and as I look back, I can see that I am no longer the twenty seven-year-old man ordained in this Cathedral.” And then, after humorously indicating that he has now put on more pounds, has less hair, and has been prescribed maintenance medicines, he narrated the different places, faces, and ministries God has given him that shaped who he has become today.

And then he added, “And yet, after twenty-five years as a priest, I am still the same person: I still have the same tendency to be short-tempered. I still have the same weaknesses, fall into the same sins. Salamat sa awa ng Diyos, na hindi nagsasawa sa pagpapatawad at pagpapalakas!” (Thanks be to God, who doesn’t get tired of forgiving and strengthening me!)

“I am the same, yet different . . .” We see the same reality on full display in today’s Gospel. In the first part of the Gospel, Simon spoke in behalf of the Twelve and declared, under the power of the Holy Spirit, that Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God (see vv. 16-17). For that, he was commissioned to lead the Twelve and was given a new name “Cephas” (Petrus in Latin), meaning rock, because with his leadership, the foundation of the Church would be built. Two thousand years and 266 popes later, that Church is still very much alive and vibrant.

And yet, we see several verses later, that the same Peter, commissioned as the rock foundation, is rebuked by Jesus and called “Satan” when he “set his mind on the things of men instead of the things of God” (see v. 23).

My priest-friend was different yet the same person after twenty-five years. Peter, after his commissioning, was different yet the same.

That is the paradox of grace. Grace builds on nature. When God’s grace operates, it is the same person, weak but enabled and graced to do greater things!

~Fr. Joel O. Jason

Have you allowed God’s grace to have its way in you?

“‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear; and grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear; the hour I first believed.” Amen.

Prayer

… for a deep and profound respect for life, especially for the unborn.

… for the strength and healing of the sick.

… for the healing and peace of all families.

Finally, we pray for one another, for those who have asked our prayers and for those who need our prayers the most.

GOD BLESS!