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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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  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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