From the Rector’s Study

The Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe, known for their luxury watches, has had one of the world’s cleverest and iconic advertising campaigns for over twenty-five years. Its slogan: “You Never Actually Own A Patek Philippe, You Merely Look After It For The Next Generation.”

The parable of the ten bridesmaids. We tend to think of this as a parable from the past, the time of Jesus, and not today, and that weddings would now start close to the time they were set for.

The beatitudes in Matthew are also in Luke in a different form. They’re obviously not the same.

A Regional Combined Worship service will be Sunday, October 29th, at 10:00 a.m. at Christ Church, 154 Kent St, Campbellford.

Give to the emperor that which belongs to the emperor and to God that which belongs to God. We will get to Jesus’s answer in a moment, but what does this say about the questioners, the Pharisees?

Twelve years ago, tens of millions of people sat glued to their televisions on April 29th, 2011 in order to watch the wedding of the decade. This was the day that Prince William and Kate Middleton were married. Of course some people didn’t need to watch it on TV, because they had received one of the 1,900 invitations to be a wedding guest.

As we think of Thanksgiving and the story today of Jesus healing the 10 lepers and only the Samaritan returns to give thanks. But the message seems to be give thanks to God for what you receive and don’t just forget about it and go back to your old life.

There is an old Jewish witticism in which someone asks his rabbi, “Why do rabbis always answer a question with another question?” to which the rabbi replied, “Why shouldn’t a rabbi answer a question with another question?” Judaism is a religion of questions. In Judaism, to be without questions is not a sign of faith, but of lack of depth.

Service Bulletin and Video for the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost.