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  Monday – 10 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 5:1-12 Go Tell it on the Mountain Front Porch, TN This is an all too familiar Gospel reading – the Beatitudes!   Whenever my Scripture classes got to this passage, I always joked that these should be the “A” attitudes, not the “B’ attitudes!   These are the ideal of how we should act.   Yeah, I know, corny!   It’s what I do! But consider today not just WHAT Jesus says today; consider WHERE He preaches.   On a mountain top!   That should be a familiar setting.   After the Flood, Noah and the ark settle on Mount Ararat where Noah offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.   Abram takes Isaac to the mountain top to sacrifice him and instead God extends to Abram the first covenant.   It is on Mt. Sinai that God give Moses the tablets of the Law.   The Jews went up to Jerusalem to the Mount to worship in the Temple.   Many times, Jesus went off to a mountain to be alon...
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  Sunday – Feast of Corpus Christi Gospel – John 6:51-58 The Joy of the Eucharist Server Training For over 15 years, I have been blessed and energized by my ministry to our altar servers at SRB – training them, mentoring and encouraging them.   Throughout these 15 years, I would visit the 4 th graders and invite them to become servers.   But this past year was different!   This time I decided to include the 3 rd graders in my ‘server appeal’.   When I opened the church doors after school for training, imagine my shock when I saw the crowd (and I do mean crowd) coming in the doors.   I thought, for sure, maybe there was a children’s choir practice.   But NO!   They were all there for server training!   Over half the 3 rd grade class were trained that day.   WOW! They were so excited, so energized and so attentive, the most attentive group of ‘newbies’ I have ever seen.   The reason seemed obvious.   They were still ba...
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  Saturday – 9 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Mark 12:38-44 A Helping Hand Streets of Old Jaffa (Tel Aviv)   Back when Ginger worked downtown and had to brave the Kennedy during rush hour (which usually lasts all day, so a rush-day), she would always encounter a number of homeless and destitute looking for a handout.   She found it difficult to try and fumble around looking for loose change at the last minute.   So she came up with a simple solution, one that required a bit of planning ahead.   She created little Ziplock bags of goodies – granola bars, chocolate, maybe some fresh fruit – and kept a supply at the ready in the car.   It might not seem like much to us but, for those in need, it was kind and thoughtful. Which brings us to today’s Gospel where we see once again the hypocrisy of the Scribes who always seem to be ‘on parade’ in their fancy and colorful clothes.   They take the best seats in the synagogue and at wedding feasts an...
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