World Communion Sunday
 
 
33"Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. 34When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. 35But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. 37Finally he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' 38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.' 39So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" 41They said to him, "He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time."
                                                                                    Matthew 21:33-46
 
(The Vineyard Series)
from  ◊The Painted Prayerbook◊
by Jan Richardson
http://paintedprayerbook.com/
© Jan L. Richardson:      The art pieces that appear with the weekly lectionary reflections
are painted paper collages that Jan creates as part of the process of doing lectio with the texts.
 
 
 
Envy shoots at others
and wounds itself.
                                                            ~ English Proverb
 

 

 
Just living is not enough ...
One must have sunshine, freedom,
and a little flower.
                                                            ~ Hans Christian Anderson
 
 

 
 
I started back with Memories in the Making at the Adult Day Care on Wednesday
and found that Audrey, one of the clients, had baked a delicious Welcome Back cake!!!
 
Congratulations, Mark, on your Ordination and Installation as Co-Pastor
of St. Andrew's Church Wednesday evening!!!
You did it!
 
Reverend Mark Vickstrom
 
Anne and Mark's three kids.
Charlotte (Rotary Exchange student from Denmark), Elizabeth, Caroline, and Will.
 
The aspen are turning in the High Country!
 
 
This year, we saw more red patches of aspen than we have seen for a long time.
 
 
Still lots of gold!
 
Angel and Vicki
 
 
 
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success,
without which confidence and ability to perform
shall cease to exist.
                                                            ~ Mary Kay Ash
 
 
 
 
 
October 5, 2008    Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
 
Previous OPQs may be found at:      
     http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm 
 
 
 
(Matthew scripture) Spoken the day after Jesus cleansed the Temple ...

42Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is amazing in our eyes'? 43Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom. 44The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls."

45When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. 46They wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.
                            
Matthew 21:33-46

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
 
 
 
http://www.cruzblanca.org/hermanoleon/sem/a/to/27_vinadores/index.htm
 
 
Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20
Psalm 19:1-14
Philippians 3:4b-14
Matthew 21:33-46