Labor Day Sunday

Be Opened

 

 

Notice of Sale of Poor Persons

mid 19th century

Prairietown Building

Butler, Ohio

United States

 

This notice of sale is described:  “Paupers would be sold at auction to the lowest bidder.  Basically, a bidder would take out a contract to house, clothe, and feed the person and in return they would work for one year to pay the debt.”

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20150902320404052&code=ACT&RC=54203&Row=3

 

 

 

 

 

 

Genius begins great works;

labor alone finishes them.

~ Joseph Joubert

 

 

 

 

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive;

but it is lightning that does the work.

~ Mark Twain

 

 

 

 

 

 

These noisy juvenile red tail hawks were on the third fairway

when we played golf (par 3) on Wednesday Lone Tree Golf Course.

 

 

 

 

Birthday dinner at the Briarwood Wednesday evening!

Thank you, Rebecca, Joan, Sharron, and Eileen!!!

They didn’t have any candles so they used the one from the center of the table as a substitute.

 

 

Tammy Stortz, Debbie McClung, Marilyn Herrs, Carolyn Alexander

Debbie and Marilyn, from Life Care Nursing Home, treated Tammy and me to a birthday luncheon

at the Hideaway in Genesee.

 

 

 

Hans, Ernie, and Bill at our “Yoga” Silver Sneakers potluck Saturday evening.

 

 

 

Nancy Eldridge is our instructor and was our

hostess for the potluck.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end,

it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. *

~ Doug Larson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 6, 2015      15th Sunday after Pentecost—23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 18

 

Previous OPQs may be found at:

     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

 

* Used in 2010.

 

 

Jesus set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He said to her, "Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs." But she answered him, "Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs." Then he said to her, "For saying that, you may go-- the demon has left your daughter." So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. 

Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were astounded beyond measure, saying, "He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak."

Mark 7:24-37

 

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23 with
          Psalm 125
or
Isaiah 35:4-7a with
          Psalm 146
James 2:1-10 [11-13] 14-17
Mark 7:24-37