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  21 st Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel - Matthew 16:21-27 The Key To Success Keys   (Prayers Please for my Mom who is in the hospital after taking a fall on Friday)   I don’t know if I’m the crazy one or if everyone here has one of these cups sitting around somewhere at home or maybe it’s a drawer or a box in your home.   This cup is filled with keys.    There are house keys and apartment keys, car keys, lock box keys, luggage keys for travel, keys that I don’t even remember what lock they fit.   In a sense, this cup contains a record of my adult life – my first car, my first apartment, our first apartment as husband and wife, the keys we were given when we bought our first home.    There are keys that open doors and keys that lock away and protect valuables.   Keys seem to be a recurring theme in today’s readings.   Eliakim, in the first reading, is given the keys to the House of David the King.   He will control ...
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  Saturday – Queenship of Mary Gospel – Matthew 23:1-12 Back to School My Classroom This has been back to school week, not just for our SRB parish grade school but also for Trinity and St. Patrick High School where I taught for almost 40 years.   Is it a little bittersweet for me?   You bet!   I miss setting up my classroom – all the brain-teasers on my desk, all the world religions ‘stuff’ on the tables and walls, the music playing in the background!   I miss creating my seating charts and wondering if anyone this year will figure out the pattern!   I miss that first day when they get their first dose of crazy projects and tests (and my sense of humor)!   I miss the ‘chair’ and those meditation journeys!   And, most importantly I miss my students (and my altar servers) and the sheer joy I get when I see that moment of enlightenment on their faces when they ‘get it’! There is one line in today’s Gospel that brings that whole teaching expe...
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  Friday - 20 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 22:34-40 He Loves You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah Fields of Upper Galilee   Advice from An Old Farmer Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. Words that soak into your ears are whispered… not yelled. Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight. Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads. Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you. It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge. You cannot unsay a cruel word. Every path has a few puddles. When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty. The best sermons are lived, not preached. Every day we are faced with choices!   Too often, I think, we make our decisions based on one simple premise – the lesser of 2 evils !   What can I get away with?   What will ...
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