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  20 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 15:21-28 Turning Back? Walking in Sepphoris One of my favorite conversations in the Lord of the Rings movies/books is the one below!   Just when Frodo is at his lowest, ready to give up and give in to the evil of the Ring, when all hope seems to be lost, Sam reminds him of the importance of holding on, not giving up, being persistent, keeping the faith!! By rights we shouldn’t even be here, but we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you - that meant something even if you were too small to under...
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  Saturday – Feast of the Assumption of Mary Gospel – Luke 1: 39-56 The Long and Winding Road Church of the Dormition, Jerusalem Ever had something you really wanted?   Maybe it was a bike or a new baseball glove or a new gaming system!   But it wasn’t going to be a gift; you had to work for it.   Maybe you spent all summer mowing lawns or working for the park district for the money.   Maybe it was that dream career that you had to spend years in school and internship in order to get it!   It was Work!   No gift on a silver platter!   You had to work for it.   And then when you got it, well the joy was immense! Joy comes spilling out of today’s Gospel!   It is expressed by 2 women: Mary and her cousin Elizabeth. It’s a joy that can’t be contained; it rushes out like a torrent of water in their words and their actions.   Two cousins, both pregnant, embracing each other with happiness over each of their impending births! ...
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  Friday – 19 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew19:3-12 In Good Times and In Bad…. Chapel at Cana A few years ago, not far from our Chicago neighborhood, a newborn baby was abandoned in an alley.   Stuffed inside a chest of drawers in the trash in 90-degree heat, the baby was discovered and rescued just before garbage trucks made their rounds.   The baby is now alive and well, praise the Lord! Can you imagine?   Tossing out a new life into a trash can like it was simply garbage.   We throw away broken appliances, spoiled food and old furniture.   Have we stooped so low as to regard human life as disposable?   Has this little child become, not a sign of life and hope, but a problem to avoid and a relationship not even worth working on?   When things get tough, is it easier to walk away from the relationship than to put in the time and effort to work on it?   We can’t be bothered! That is what Jesus is addressing in today’s Gosp...
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