Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
Third Sunday in Lent
Turn/Repent
and
Gratitude
At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans
whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, "Do
you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse
sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you
will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower
of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the
others living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all
perish just as they did."
Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard;
and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the gardener,
'See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and
still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?' He replied,
'Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on
it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it
down.'"
Luke
13:1-9
The Gardener and the Fig Tree
Stained
Glass
Dungarvan,
Waterford
Ireland
Bloom where
you are planted.*
~ Saint Francis de Sales
We shall
have to repent,
not so much
for the evil deeds of the wicked people,
but for the
appalling silence of the good
people.
~ M. L. King Jr.
David Cuin’s
book signing at Hearthfire Bookstore
Remembering
Vicki Hall’s
sister …
Jan Barclay
April 16,
1937 ~ February 28, 2013
Springfield,
Missouri
Oh! I have
slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've
climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of …
from High Flight, by John Gillespie Magee,
Jr.
http://www.deltaweb.co.uk/spitfire/hiflight.htm
He is a wise man who does not grieve
for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
~ Epictetus
March 3, 2013 Third Sunday in Lent
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* The Bishop of Geneva, Saint
Francis de Sales (1567-1622) is credited with the quote, “Bloom where you are
planted.” Later Mary Engelbreit made the phrase popular, and countless Biblical
references seem to point to various verses in the Bible that carry a similar
idea.
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the
permission of www.agnusday.org
http://fearlesslyjustme.blogspot.com/2012/08/living-fearlessly-bloom-where-you-are.html
http://pinterest.com/pin/70509550387625873/
Isaiah 55:1–9
Psalm 63:1–8
1 Corinthians 10:1–13
Luke 13:1–9