The Most Important Commandment

Reformation Sunday

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer,
asked him a question to test him,
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”

He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

This is the greatest and first commandment.

And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them this question:
“What do you think of the Messiah?

Whose son is he?”
They said to him, “The son of David.”

He said to them, “How is it then that David by the Spirit calls him Lord, saying, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet”’?

If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?” No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.

Matthew 22:34-46

The Pharisees Question Jesus (Les pharisiens questionnent Jésus)

TISSOT, James

1886-1894

Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper

European Art

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn, New York

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4549/The_Pharisees_Question_Jesus_Les_pharisiens_questionnent_Jésus/set/5c4a9254d63ddb7fd6ac826364088dcd?referring-q=pharisees+question+jesus

In the evening,

we will be judged on love.

~ John of the Cross

Every advance in civilization

has been denounced as unnatural

while it was recent.

~ Bertrand Russell

Vicki and I went to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

last Sunday to see the Whales Exhibit.

Fascinating!!!

Photo from museum website

http://www.dmns.org/whales-giants-of-the-deep/exhibition-features/

Vicki Hall riding one of the wolves in front of the Museum of N&S.

There is a string of beautiful Red Sunset Maples along the front of the museum.

19 Rowdy Rotarians

Prague Restaurant

Evergreen, CO

Prague in Evergreen

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

The very helpful barmaids/wait staff at the Prague.

Beth Anderson is showing that she is wearing her Rotary pin.

Wayne and Kathe Lundhagen, Bob Meade

“The Last Romance”

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Jeanne Gibbard and I thoroughly enjoyed “The Last Romance”

presented by the Creede Repertory Theatre

at the Arvada Center!

Kay Owen at Mama Sannino’s Restaurant.

All six of our Chew and Chat group were there for lunch on Thursday,

but I neglected to take a picture of the others.

Remembering

Jane Haynes

1928 - 2014

Memorial Service

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Hiwan Homestead Museum

Evergreen, Colorado

Hiwan Homestead Museum

“The Foreman,” by Laura Mehmert, in the foreground.

Bless you, Becky and Trish.

What a lovely remembrance of your mother.

Tell me the landscape in which you live

and I will tell you who you are.

José Ortega y Gasset

October 26, 2014 Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost — 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time/Proper 25

Previous OPQs may be found at:

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

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” They answered him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been slaves to anyone. What do you mean by saying, ‘You will be made free’?”

Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not have a permanent place in the household; the son has a place there forever. So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

John 8:31-36

— Reformation Day

John 8:31-36

Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein

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