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  Friday – 23 rd Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 6:39-42 Humble Pie! Lighting a Candle, Church of Holy Sepulchre A little boy was overheard talking to himself as he strutted through the backyard, wearing his baseball cap and toting a ball and bat. "I'm the greatest HITTER in the world," he announced. Then, he tossed the ball into the air, swung at it, and missed. "Strike One!" he yelled. Undaunted, he picked up the ball and said again, "I'm the greatest hitter in the world!"    He tossed the ball into the air. When it came down he swung again and missed. "Strike Two!" he cried out.   The boy then paused a moment to examine his bat and ball carefully. He spit on his hands and rubbed them together. He straightened his cap and said once more, "I'm the greatest hitter in the world!" Again he tossed the ball up in the air and swung at it. He missed. "Strike Three!" "Wow!...
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  Thursday – 23 rd Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 6:27-38 Keep It Simple! Going for a Walk I remember as a young father the times I would go outside after hearing the neighborhood kids arguing or fighting about something.   I felt somehow that it was part of my job as a parent to be a peacemaker.   So I would go out, gather the kids together, have them all say they were sorry and shake hands.   And I would get the dumbest looks from all of them.   And for a very good reason!   By the time I got outside, they had already moved on.   They had already completely forgotten what they were arguing about and just went back to playing together.   Forgive and forget!   If only it were so simple these days.   If only we hadn’t forgotten how to be child-like!   All we seem to see and read about today are adults acting CHILD-ISH!   Spoiled, demanding to get our way, refusing to see the other side, angry, bitter, vengeful, ful...
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  Wednesday – 23 rd Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 6:20-26 Leaping for Joy Mediterranean Sea, Tel Aviv Have you ever had a moment when you literally leapt for joy?   I mean literally jumped in the air because you were so happy?   Maybe it was the last out when the Cubs won the World Series!   Maybe it was when you learned you passed that final exam of your worst class or that acceptance letter from your #1 college!   Maybe when you made the softball team or passed the boards to become a nurse!   A time when you were so full of joy that you couldn’t contain your excitement! So multiply that by a couple of billion and maybe we get close to the joy that Jesus is talking about in today’s Gospel.   The joy of entering the Kingdom of Heaven, the joy of realizing the Kingdom is yours!   Leaping for joy and pumping your fist in the air, a joy that can’t be contained inside and must be bursting out of every pore in your body. This is Luke’s ...
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