All Saints’ Day
Welcoming and Honoring and
Healing
He
entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he
was a chief tax-collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but
on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he
ran ahead and climbed a sycomore tree to see him, because he was going to pass
that way. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him,
"Zacchaeus, hurry and come down; for I must stay at your house
today." So he hurried down and was happy to welcome him. All who saw it
began to grumble and said, "He has gone to be the guest of one who is a
sinner." Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, "Look, half of
my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone
of anything, I will pay back four times as much." Then Jesus said to him,
"Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of
Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost."
“Hurry down,
Zacchaeus” *
Stained glass window
Korntal
Germany
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glasfenster_Zachäus_Korntal_Christuskirche.jpg
The
Just Shall Live by Their Faith
Habakkuk is trying to
grow from a faith of perplexity and doubt to the height of absolute trust in
God.
The oracle that the
prophet Habakkuk saw.
The Prophet’s Complaint
O Lord,
how long shall I cry for help,
and you will not listen?
Or cry to you ‘Violence!’
and you will not save?
Why do you make me see wrongdoing
and look at trouble?
Destruction and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.
So the law becomes slack
and justice never prevails.
The wicked surround the righteous—
therefore judgement comes forth perverted.
God’s Reply to the Prophet’s Complaint
I will stand at my
watch-post,
and station myself on the rampart;
I will keep watch to see what he will say to me,
and what he will answer concerning my complaint.
Then the Lord answered me
and said:
Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so that a runner may read it.
For there is still a vision for the appointed time;
it speaks of the end, and does not lie.
If it seems to tarry, wait for it;
it will surely come, it will not delay.
Look at the proud!
Their spirit is not right in them,
but the righteous live by their faith.
Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4
The Prophet Habakkuk
Opera
di S. Maria del Fiore Museo
As one
of the most renowned works in sculpture of the Renaissance, Donatello's prophet
Habakkuk ushered in a strain of psychological and physical realism. The
modeling of the bald, strained, head of the prophet creates a sense of powerful
forewarning, appropriate to the scriptural texts. This statue originally stood
outside, and Florentines gave it the name, "Il Zuccone," or
Pumpkinhead.
The
Habakkuk sculpture is an example of Donatello's attempt at
"ekphrasis" -- "Ekphrasis has been considered generally to be a
rhetorical device in which one medium of art tries to relate to another medium
by defining and describing its essence and form, and in doing so, relate more
directly to the audience, through its illuminative liveliness. A descriptive
work of prose or poetry, a film, or even a photograph may thus highlight
through its rhetorical vividness what is happening, or what is shown in, say, any
of the visual arts, and in doing so, may enhance the original art and so take
on a life of its own through its brilliant description. " [from
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekphrasis]
Kenneth Gross, a scholar whose work, The Dream of the Moving
Statue, tackles examples of ekphrasis in the dialogue between literature and
fine art. He writes about Donatello's Habakkuk and the artist's attempt
to represent the prophet's Biblicalm iconoclastic rhetoric. "Let us
first imagine Donatello trying to answer the question, How does one make a
statue of an iconoclast? ... How could the statue of an iconoclast face down
the fact of being one of those things that "have mouths, but do not speak;
/ eyes, but do not see / ...ears, but do not hear; / noses, but do not
smell" (Ps 115:5-8)? Donatello's solution...is to construct a figure whose
aspect entails a radical retroping of the merely given wordlessness, blindess,
and senselessness of sculpture, a refiguring of the opacity that makes the idol
a spiritual threat. It entails a choice of form and feature that radically
readjusts our angle of vision on the statue's way of representing life, as well
as on its inherent deathliness."
arises
from there being too many interesting things in it
for
us to be interested properly in any of them.
Do you think there is anything
not
attached by its unbreakable cord
to
everything else?
~
Mary Oliver
REMEMBERING
Sue
(SuSu) Wolff
January
6, 1935 ~ October 25, 2025
We
spent many, many enjoyable Thanksgivings together!
Church of the Hills
KIRKIN'
o’ the TARTANS, 2025
Bunco!
Joan
Osborne, Heidi Smithson, Cindy Irwin, Dianne Lebsock, Linda LaGrange
Lunch
with Sharron at Wind Crest
Carolyn,
Sharron Leonard, Van Farnsworth, Lynn Gilbert
Jen
Volmer’s Annual Halloween Party
Jen
Volmer, Debbie Propeck, Sandy Fields, Robyn Mangham, Carolyn, Kate McCord, Jodi
Holman
Jen
is an amazing hostess!
I
went as a pineapple but I couldn’t get into the entire costume!
7:15
Friday morning at Rotary
Kimra
Perkins came as a waffle!
Tina
Yoshioka LOVES facepainting!
Pumpkins
by Abby, Tina, and Ray Yoshioka.
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes,
because that's where the fruit is.
~
Will Rogers
October 26, 2025 Twenty-first
Sunday after Pentecost - Year C - [Prop.
26C]
Previous OPQs may be found at:
* Remember this little ditty from when you were a child?
Zacchaeus was a wee little man, and a wee
little man was he.
He climbed up in a sycamore tree, for the Lord he wanted to see.
And as the Savior passed that way he looked up in that tree.
And he said, ‘Zacchaeus, you come down.
For I’m coming to your house today.
I’m coming to your house today.’
In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance, having been
destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according
to his counsel and will, so that we, who were the first to set our hope on
Christ, might live for the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you had
heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him,
were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit;this is the pledge of our
inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.
I
have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
and for this reason I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in
my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, so that,
with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may perceive what is the hope to
which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among
the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power for us who
believe, according to the working of his great power. God put this power to
work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right
hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and
dominion and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in
the age to come. And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the
head over all things for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who
fills all in all.
Ephesians
1:11-23
Agnus Day, by
James Weinstein
Agnus
Day appears with the permission of www.agnusday.org
http://roadtoemmauspbc.blogspot.com/2013/04/psalm-119137-144.html
All Saints' Day
at a cemetery in Gniezno, Poland – flowers and candles placed to honor
deceased relatives (2017)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints'_Day
LECTIONARY
All Saints Day - November 1, 2025
-
Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18 and Psalm 149
-
Ephesians 1:11-23 -
Luke 6:20-31
Proper 26 (31) – November 2, 2025
-
Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 and Psalm
119:137-144 -
Isaiah 1:10-18 and Psalm 32:1-7 -
2
Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 -
Luke 19:1-10
Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4
O Lord, how long shall I cry for
help,
and you will not listen?
Or cry to you "Violence!"
and you will not save?
Why do you make me see wrongdoing
and look at trouble?
Destruction and violence are before me;
strife and contention arise.
So the law becomes slack
and justice never prevails.
The wicked surround the righteous—
therefore judgment comes forth perverted.
I will stand at my watch-post,
and station myself on the rampart;
I will keep watch to see what he will say to me,
and what he will answer concerning my complaint.
Then the Lord answered me and said:
Write the vision;
make it plain on tablets,
so that a runner may read it.
For there is still a vision for the appointed time;
it speaks of the end, and does not lie.
If it seems to tarry, wait for it;
it will surely come, it will not delay.
Look at the proud!
Their spirit is not right in them,
but the righteous live by their faith.
and
Psalm 119:137-144
You are righteous,
O God,
and your judgments are right.
You have appointed your decrees
in righteousness
and in all faithfulness.
My zeal consumes me
because my foes forget your words.
Your promise is well tried,
and your servant loves it.
I am small and despised,
yet I do not forget your precepts.
Your righteousness is an
everlasting righteousness,
and your law is the truth.
Trouble and anguish have come upon
me,
but your commandments are my delight.
Your decrees are righteous
forever;
give me understanding
that I may live.
or
Isaiah 1:10-18
Hear the word of the Lord,
you rulers of Sodom!
Listen to the teaching of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt-offerings of rams
and the fat of fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
When you come to appear before me,
who asked this from your hand?
Trample my courts no more;
bringing offerings is futile;
incense is an abomination to me.
New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation—
I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.
Your new moons and your appointed festivals
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me,
I am weary of bearing them.
When you stretch out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your doings
from before my eyes;
cease to do evil, learn to do good;
seek justice, rescue the oppressed,
defend the orphan, plead for the widow.
Come now, let us argue it out,
says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be like snow;
though they are red like crimson,
they shall become like wool.
and
Psalm 32:1-7
Happy are those whose transgression
is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
Happy are those to whom God
imputes no iniquity,
and in whose spirit
there is no deceit.
While I kept silence,
my body wasted away
through my groaning
all day long.
For day and night your hand
was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up
as by the heat of summer.
Then I acknowledged my sin
to you,
and I did not hide my iniquity;
I said, "I will confess
my transgressions to God,"
and you forgave the guilt
of my sin.
Therefore let all who are faithful
offer prayer to you;
at a time of distress,
the rush of mighty waters
shall not reach them.
You are a hiding-place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with glad cries
of deliverance.
2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12
Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,
To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We must always give thanks to God
for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing
abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your
steadfastness and faith during all your persecutions and the afflictions that
you are enduring.
To this end we always pray for you,
asking that our God will make you worthy of his call and will fulfil by his
power every good resolve and work of faith, so that the name of our Lord Jesus
may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Luke 19:1-10
He entered Jericho and was passing
through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and
was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he
could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a
sycomore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. When Jesus
came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and
come down; for I must stay at your house today." So he hurried down and
was happy to welcome him. All who saw it began to grumble and said, "He
has gone to be the guest of one who is a sinner." Zacchaeus stood there
and said to the Lord, "Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to
the poor; and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four
times as much." Then Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to
this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek
out and to save the lost."
