The Ten Commandments

Then God spoke all these words:

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name. Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labor and do all your work. Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, they were afraid and trembled and stood at a distance, and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, or we will die." Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid; for God has come only to test you and to put the fear of him upon you so that you do not sin."

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

The Tablets of Law

Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum

Bethesda, Maryland

http://www.ratnermuseum.com/?page=exodus#

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves,

by relating that we observe,

by affirming that we examine,

by showing that we look,

by writing that we think,

by pumping that we draw water into the well.

~ Henri Frederic Amiel

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Bryce couldn’t stay for breakfast with our Wednesday Breakfast Group,

but he wanted to share his paintings before he went to school.

He is a big kindergarten student this year!

Our speaker at Rotary this week was Dr. Cindy Stevenson,

Superintendent of Jefferson County Schools for the past ten years.

The aspen are glorious!

A lone leaf landed on my windshield.

Laura Mehmert demonstrated sculpture work at the Opening of the new Main Street Fine Art.

http://www.lauramehmertdesigns.com/

Jane Christie, on the right, is their guest artist for the month.

http://www.janechristieart.com/

Denise Bellon West with one of her paintings at the Design Center.

http://www.denisebellonwest.com/

Eileen, Sharron, Rebecca

We again got to "cast away our sins" for Rosh Hashanah.

According to Rebecca, we can now start all over with our sins!

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Seamus, with a ball in his mouth, is helping Bonnie

recover from the surgery she had at M.D. Anderson in Texas.

If God had wanted us to live in a permissive society,

He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not

Ten Commandments.

~ Zig Ziglar

October 2, 2011 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Previous OPQs may be found at:

http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm

[And Jesus said:] "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. When the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his produce. But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other slaves, more than the first; and they treated them in the same way. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him and get his inheritance.' So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?" They 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."

Jesus 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'?
"Therefore 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. The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls."

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. They 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

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

Psalm 19:1-14

Philippians 3:4b-14

Matthew 21:33-46