After her degree in food science, Susanne Schanz had the idea to start a gourmet catering service delivering fine meals to clients’ homes. With little in the way of money, but with plenty of energy, she set off to realize her dream.

Text to the parable of the Talents

The parable ends with those words: "Those who have will be given more, and will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him."

Text to the parable of the widow's offering

Jesus sat across from the place where the offerings were made and watched the crowd

give their money to the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “This poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

An article by the historian Ursula Kampmann

What kind of person passionately assembles a coin collection, piece-by-piece, over years? A perfectionist, curiousity-driven, a speculator? With tongue slightly in cheek, the author examines the strange tribe of coin collectors.

Text to a parable of the laborers in the vineyard

The landowner replied, "Friend, I have done you no wrong ... Take what is yours, and be on your way ... May I not do as I wish with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?”

Text to a parable of price versus value (Zurich Bible, Markus 14)

While he was in Bethany, visiting the home of Simon, a woman came to the house with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head …