Elders’ Day

Wealth and the poor and judging



A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
and favor is better than silver or gold.
The rich and the poor have this in common:
the Lord is the maker of them all.

Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity,
and the rod of anger will fail.
Those who are generous are blessed,
for they share their bread with the poor.

Do not rob the poor because they are poor,
or crush the afflicted at the gate;
for the Lord pleads their cause
and despoils of life those who despoil them.

 

Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23

 

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Young Beggar

MURILLO, Bartolomé Esteban

1645

Musee du Louvre

Paris, France

 

http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20120905566558837&code=ACT&RC=55205&Row=6

 

 

 

 

 

Judge a man by his questions

rather than his answers.

~ Voltaire

 

 

 

No accurate thinker will judge another person

by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

~ Napoleon Hill

 

 

 

 

 

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Danna Cuin videotaping our Wednesday Breakfast Group on her new iPad.

 

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Several of us met to address invitations for the Fall Carnival,

our BIG fundraiser this year.

 

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Holly Brekke fixed a delicious salad for lunch.

 

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Annette Bradley and our hostess, Gretchen MacArthur.

Gretchen had coffee and goodies for us to munch on as we addressed envelopes

and then we had lunch!

 

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Hanna Holt and Kimra Perkins sold raffle tickets and Kimra gave free fortunes at Rotary.

 

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Mimi Nelson introduced our speaker, Rod Mackey, Channel 9 sportscaster.

Rod is a home-grown Evergreen boy.

 

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Zoe Allen with Bia, one of our Rotary Exchange Students.

Bia (Beatriz Azevedo Monteiro) is from Brazil.

 

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This was a block from my home.

How does one take precautions???

 

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An athlete practicing her rowing skills at the lake this morning.

 

 

 

 

 

When you judge another,

you do not define them,

you define yourself.

~ Wayne Dyer

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 9, 2012     Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost; 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

 

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From there he 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 astonished 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 is not in its finished form this week.

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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

 

 

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What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

James 2:14-17

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Prov. 22:1–2, 8–9, 22–23

Ps. 125

James 2:1–10 (11–13) 14–17

Mark 7:24–37