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  Tuesday – Nativity of Our Blessed Mother Gospel – Matthew1:1-16, 18-23 Mom Time Mary’s Home, inside Basilica of Annunciation, Nazareth Just last week, we celebrated my Mom’s 101 st birthday.   Well, not so much ‘celebrated’.   I mean since I am here in Tennessee and she is in Southern Maryland and she is currently in a rehab center recovering from a fall – broken wrist and slight femur fracture.   And no, it was not from her celebrating! But we did send her cards and flowers. Through all the craziness, it was still an opportunity to give thanks for her long life and her life as our mother.   It certainly can’t have been easy “wrangling” the four of us but she more than managed it.   And so we celebrated not only her life as a mother but the life she had given us as her sons and daughters. We celebrate another birthday today – the Nativity of Mary.   And we would do well to not only celebrate her birth but also her life as the Mother of our S...
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  Monday - 23 rd Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 6:6-11 Timing Is Everything? Falafel Time, Jerusalem Ever get bailed out, rescued, at the last minute?   The teacher postponing that test you didn’t study for!   That neighbor who helped you shovel out your car after a snowstorm!   That job offer that came out of nowhere after months of fruitless searching?   That best friend who calls you up just when you needed a supportive voice! We’ve all had moments like this, a little miracle happening just when we needed it.   But I wonder – is it just about timing?   Is it any less of a miracle, a wonder, if it happened at a different time?   Is timing everything?   Is there ever a bad time for a good thing to happen? Timing matters in today’s Gospel!   Jesus is in the synagogue on the Sabbath.   And the scribes and Pharisees are just waiting for Jesus to cure a man with a withered hand, to accuse Him of doing work on the Sabbath....
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  23 rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 18:15-20 Houston, We Have a Problem On the Shores of the Sea of Galilee A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbor. Within a few days the whole community knew the story. The person it concerned was deeply hurt and offended. Later, the woman responsible for spreading the rumor learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise old sage to find out what she could do to repair the damage. “Go to the marketplace.” he said, “and purchase a chicken, and have it killed. Then on your way home, pluck its feathers and drop them one by one along the road.” Although surprised by this advice, the woman did what she was told. The next day the wise man said, “Now, go and collect all those feathers you dropped yesterday and bring them back to me.” The woman followed the same road, but to her dismay the wind had blown all the feathers away. After searching for hours, she returned with only three in her hand. ...
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