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  Monday – 5 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Mark 6:53-56 Scurrying Around Welcome Home! Over the past year, we have been blessed to welcome a number of people and friends into our home – dear friends from SRB and Kateri Center, fellow Deacons, childhood friends, and family, especially Mary, my sister, who has been staying with us through this wintry stretch of cold and even snow!   Apparently, our Tennessee BnB is working just fine – no bad Yelp reviews as yet!     But none of those extended visits/overnights just sort of happens. It takes a lot of time and energy to prep for a relaxing and enjoyable stay.   There’s the grocery shopping, the organizing of menus, the cleaning, the planning of places to visit and local sites to explore!   A lot of time and energy ahead of time, but so worth the effort!   All the rush and flurry of getting everything ‘just so’!   But it was also a time of great anticipation, joy, and excitement about wh...
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  5 th Sunday of Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 5:13-19 Let’s Get Cooking! Spice Shop in Jerusalem Ginger and I watch a lot of food shows, most of them cooking competitions like Top Chef, Food Network Star, Hell’s Kitchen, Chopped and especially Master Chef (Australia – the best).   And with all of those shows, it boggles the mind how often someone gets booted off the competition because their dish “lacked flavor”, because their dish either lacked or needed just another pinch of salt!   In fact, just last week, one contestant got eliminated from the competition because of one simple mistake - they forgot to put salt in the recipe when they made bread!   And the bread came out flavorless and bland!   I may have my Senior Moments lately but so far at least, I have not forgotten the salt when I’m baking bread! I must admit I like my share of salt.   To Ginger’s chagrin, I am always adding more salt to the dish.   I recall someone (Mark Twain?) on...
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  Saturday – 4 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Mark 6:30-34 Gimme A Break! Road?   What Road? A lot of the schools around here are still closed because of the weather -4 days in a row and still counting!   But it’s not so much the snow; that pretty much melted away over the last couple of days – it’s the ice!   Many of the back roads/driveways are too remote/too steep to be plowed; add to that, they are so tree-lined that, even on a sunny day, they rarely get much direct sun to melt the ice.   (Case in point, today’s pic!   Road?   What road?) So, the warning is clear! Stay home; don’t take chances!   And if you have to be out on the roads, slow down.   These are serpentine rollercoaster roads!   Slow down and be safe! And that is what we hear in today’s Gospel.   You can almost read between the lines.   Jesus and His disciples are exhausted.   The Apostles have just returned from their missionary journeys and...
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