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  Tues day – 14 th Week in OrdinaryTime Gospel – Matthew 9:32-38 Help Wanted! Harvest Time, outside Jerusalem This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.   And the job never got done! Walk down any street these days and you will see it!   Help Wanted Signs!   Cook needed!   Wait Staff!   Looking for clerical staff!   Customer service rep!   Start immediately!   Summer Lifeguards!   Signing bonus available!   Every business imaginable is hiring.   And yet if you look more closely, you will also notice so many resta...
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  Mon day – 14 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 9:18-26 Touchy!   Touchy! Loving Hands   In today’s Gospel, we hear of, not one, but two miracles – the cure of the woman with a 12-year hemorrhage and the raising of Jairus’ daughter.   In both cases, the miracles occur through a simple touch of the hand.   For the woman, it was a touch of faith, the belief that she could be cured by merely touching Jesus, even if it was the hem of His garment.   With Jairus’ daughter, Jesus takes her by the hand and brings her back to life.   Touch!   A gentle touch of faith, a touch of love and compassion, a touch of healing and rebirth! We all know the value and meaning of such a gesture.   That bear hug of a greeting after so much time apart!   That pat on the back that encourages!   That strong handshake of friendship!   The gentle touch of love on the cheek!   That two-handed grasp of the shoulders that imparts co...
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  14 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 Marching Orders Walking Stick Sunday May 17, 2015!   10 years ago! That was the day my 13 brothers and I were ordained Permanent Deacons.   We had spent the previous 4 years in formation – Scripture classes, homiletics, moral theology, church history and Sacraments, Canon Law and spirituality, Christology and Ecclesiology, service projects and field work and practicums, particularly Presiding at Rites and Rituals!   4 very full years of classes and tests and prayerful reflection! But it was on that day, May 17, 2015 that we got our marching orders!   We each knelt before Bishop Kane and grasped the Book of the Gospels as he prayed over us!   " Receive the Book of the Gospel whose herald you have become .  Believe what you read. Teach what you believe. Practise what you teach." At some point in our lives, we have all received our ‘marching orders’.   Maybe it was when we moved in...
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