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  Wednesday 3 rd Week of Easter Gospel – John 6:35-40 Lost and Found Papal Mass, Edmonton 2022 My watch stopped working a couple of weeks ago.   Most of you know the watch I’m talking about.   It’s a gold watch gifted to my Dad back in 1972 by Texaco for 25 years of faithful service.   Engraved on the back with his name and date, it has been a family possession for over 50 years, passed on to me after Dad passed away in 2004.   Since then, I have made sure to keep it clean and running, no matter the cost. So I took it in for cleaning and a new battery.   Simple, right?   Not so much!   A new battery didn’t make any difference.   So it has been in the shop these 2 weeks as they try to get it running.   I got the news on Monday that they just couldn’t get it to run.   So I stopped in the shop to retrieve it and try somewhere else.   No luck – the owner wasn’t there.   So I went back yesterday to try again.   Th...
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  Tuesday - Third Week of Easter Gospel – John 6:30-35 Knead to Know Cooking Class   A couple years ago, I gathered together some of my altar servers for a cooking class!   They learned not only my recipe for zucchini chocolate chip muffins but how to make them from scratch!   And, YES, they took home their finished products, or at least the muffins they didn’t wolf down as soon as they came out of the oven!   It was a fun, wonderful (and messy) experience!   Who knew that cracking eggs and measuring out flour could be so ‘untidy’.   But it brought home the lesson that, in order to get those yummy muffins, it takes time, effort and a heaping cup of patience. And it reminded me not only of their loyal service but those long months of Covid when they missed their Mass ministry.   So from time to time during the pandemic, I stayed in touch with them by dropping off goodie bags filled with chocolate chip cookies, zucchini chocolate muffins a...
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  Monday – 3rd Week of Easter   - revisited Gospel – John 6:22-29 In A Pickle! Pickle Jar A few years ago, my youngest grandson, Nate, developed a sudden passion for cooking.   Some of his creations, all from scratch, have included huge cinnamon rolls, chicken parmesan and a complete traditional English breakfast (although he wasn’t able to find any blood sausage).   In fact, it was only last week that Nate again made his chicken parmesan for the family! So while the kitchen was left a disaster zone, the meal was amazing! And so besides his obvious experience of helping me bake zucchini bread, he reminded me the other day that years ago he and I also made pickles.   And he loved those pickles.   And now he (and I) has this sudden craving to make and consume those pickles once again! One teeny problem!   I couldn’t find the recipe.   I searched high and low the last couple of days for that recipe.   Who knew that, over the years, Ginge...
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