Opening Song:Abide by Aaron Keyes and Aaron WilliamsLyrics:For my waking breathFor my daily breadI depend on YouI depend on YouFor the sun to riseFor my sleep at nightI depend on YouI depend on YouYou’re the way the truth and the lifeYou’re the well that never runs dryI’m the branch and You are the vineDraw me close and teach me to abideWhere the Spirit leadsAs I’m followingI depend on YouI depend on YouFor the victoriesStill in front of meI depend on YouI depend on YouYou’re the way the truth and the lifeYou’re the well that never runs dryI’m the branch and You are the vineDraw me close and teach me to abideBe my strength my song in the nightBe my all my treasure my prizeI am Yours forever You're mineDraw me close and teach me to abideWhen I pass through deathAs I enter restI depend on YouI depend on YouFor eternal lifeTo be raised with ChristI depend on YouI depend on YouOh would you teach meWould You teach me to abideI depend on YouI depend on YouPassage: 33 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 34 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. 35 And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ 39 And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 44 And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”(Matthew Musical Reflection: Harp meditation No. 1 by Gretchen Kirby Reflection Notes: A repetitive pattern in the left hand provides a meditative foundation while the right hand experiments with ascending lines. The tune is meant to be joyful and evoke delight. Prayer:O Lord Jesus Christ, give us a measure of your spirit that we may be enabled to obey your teaching to pacify anger, to take part in pity, to moderate desire, to increase love, to put away sorrow, to cast away vainglory, not to be vindictive, not to fear death, ever entrusting our spirit to immortal God, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns world without end. -Apollonius [(d. c. 185–190). A Roman senator who was particularly well read in the philosophy of the pagans. He was forced to appear before the praetorian prefect Perennes and was eventually martyred.]