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Monday – 19 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 17:22-27 Rubber Duckies Sea of Galilee   In case you missed it, this past Thursday over 75,000 little yellow rubber duckies were dumped into the Chicago River.   As part of an annual fundraiser for Special Olympics Illinois, each duckie was individually ‘adopted’ and, in the process, over $434,000 has been raised to support the organization’s efforts.   The first few duckies to cross the finish line earned prizes like a new car, vacations and cruises.   There is a certain humor to the event when you see this huge truck dumping them into the river.   And maybe that’s the point. In the midst of all the violence and suffering in the world, it gives us the chance to step aside from all the worry and stress and just smile at the absurdity of it all.   Maybe it’s a reminder that, from time to time, we all need a moment of humor and comedy to lighten the mood! And maybe that is what’s going on in tod...
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   A 2nd Helping Today 19 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 12: 32-48 I Need A Backup     As you know, I’ve been writing these reflections on the Gospel of the day for quite a while now.   It began on March 15, 2020, when Covid shut everything down, businesses, meetings and parishes.   I thought, at the time, that there needed to be something that kept the people connected to their church, their faith.   And so it has continued to this day, 5 ½ years, over 2000 reflections.   Over that time, I’ve gotten into a kind of a routine – getting up early in the morning, writing the reflection, adding an appropriate picture, posting it and saving it.   Saving it on this little memory stick you see in the attached pic!   At least, that was my routine, until 2 weeks ago!   I plugged in my memory stick, like always, and NOTHING happened!   I tried pulling up my files.   NOTHING!   My laptop didn’t even...
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  19 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 12: 32-48 Be Prepared! Zucchini Bread Growing up in the rural farmland of Southern Maryland, we never had the chance to join the Boy Scouts.   So we never specifically learned the motto – Be Prepared!   We were 4H kids through and through, learning to be good citizens and learning how to grow and cultivate potatoes and Japanese yews, for example.   I can still remember harvesting our little plot of potatoes and then the joy of ‘selling’ them to my Dad for him to sell in his country store.   After he subtracted the original cost of the seeds, fertilizer, and a few other things, my brother and I earned a whole 25 cents each.   Of course, we immediately spent it on candy/ice cream in the store!   Wow! Granted that wasn’t much of a profit but there were plenty of lessons learned, not the least of which was all the time and effort necessary to produce a crop - the daily care and weeding, and the tilling...
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