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  Wednesday – Saints Cornelius & Cyprian Gospel – Luke 7:31-35 My Way or the Highway My Tennessee Driveway One thing I dearly miss about Chicago is the grid system for the streets.   Except for a couple of exceptions (Elston, Milwaukee Avenue, for instance), the streets are straight – north and south, east and west, and the turns are exactly 90 degrees!   Easy to navigate and find your way!   Not so much here in Tennessee; here, all roads are 3D rollercoasters – up and down, back and forth, an unseen tight curve just around the bend. And that is why I love having Google Maps show me the way!   A gentle voice telling you where to go and when to turn! And after a couple of years, I am finally at the point where I can choose to NOT plug in as I drive to a familiar destination!   Unfortunately, that also means I am getting to the point of thinking I know better than Google Maps!   Let me see if I can find a better/quicker way!   I prefer t...
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Tuesday – Our Lady of Sorrows Gospel – Luke 2:33-35.John 19:25-27 Choices Church of Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem If I ever had the choice of being a mom as opposed to a dad, thank you very much but NO!   I am quite happy as a Dad.   I’ve seen, we have all seen, the trials and tribulations our mothers have gone through: their disappointments, their worries, their silent suffering, all those moments of trial and tribulations that we put them through.   And yet, in spite of all our antics and failures, they still love us.   I guess, in a sense, we have all contributed to their ‘sainthood”.   For today’s Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, there is a choice of 2 Gospel readings.   One reading from Luke has Simeon's prophecy that sorrow will pierce her heart like a sword.   And the other from John shows Mary at the foot of the cross at Calvary.   One predicts her sorrow; the other described the fulfillment of that prophecy, sorrow at its worst. But cons...
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  Monday – Exaltation of the Cross Gospel – John 3:13-17 Simple Gifts Mount of Beatitudes Heading out the door this morning and it suddenly dawned on me what a set routine I go through just to leave the house.   Wallet?   Check!   Pen?   Yup (and yes, for all my students, it is still a blue pen)!   Keys?   Check! Cellphone?   Double Check!   I can still remember my dad and his routine!   Besides all the obvious, he never ever left the house without a toothpick, a hat, and a little spiral notepad and a pencil.   He would always be taking notes, checking on his gas mileage, etc. Over the past year, I have added one other item to my ‘heading out’ routine.   It’s a simple little wooden cross.   It is made of olive wood and was carved in Bethlehem.   I blessed it with water from the Jordan River.   I say ‘it’ but I really mean ‘them’.   I brought back a couple of bags of these little crosses.   And w...
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