Be Ready…

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Luke 12:32-40

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A Sermon on Charity

Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painter (active, 1520-25)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York

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The panel may represent Saint Anthony listening to a reading from the Gospels and, in the background, distributing his wealth to the poor, or it may be intended as a more general sermon on the virtues of charity. In either case, the theme reflects the concerns of the Biblical Humanists, a reform group that advocated charity as a moral obligation. [from Met gallery notes.]

Luke 12:32-40

 

 

The best use of life is to invest it

in something which will outlast life.

~ William James

 

 

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and dreaming dreams,

but in active charity and in willing service.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

 

This was truly a celebration week

And I received most of the charity!!!

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Vicki

Vicki treated me to Sunday lunch at Highlands Garden on my birthday.

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Carolyn

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Yum!

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David showed us his latest paintings at Wednesday breakfast.

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Hanna took me to Baskin Robbins!

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Carolyn, Sharron, Rebecca, Eileen

Our Walkies group treated me to dinner at Willow Creek.

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At Rotary, Kimra and Hanna celebrated my

graduation from 35 radiation treatments!

HURRAY!!!  No more driving to the hospital every day.

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Harold celebrated HIS birthday.

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His wife, Deborah, and guests.

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John was the barbecue chef for the evening.

 

 

Even if you’re on the right track,

you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

 

 

August 8, 2010   Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Previous OPQs may be found at:      

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 “Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. “Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves. “But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.”

Luke 12:32-40

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

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Isaiah 1:1, 10-20

Psalm 50:1-8, 22-23

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

Luke 12:32-40