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  Monday – 14 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 9:18-26 Meeting Me Halfway Chapel at Magdala Two young women, Mary and Beth, were next-door neighbors.   More importantly, they were the best of friends.   At least until one day when they had a terrible argument!   It doesn’t matter what the argument was about.   What matters is that it got so heated that they both declared the friendship was over and they both stormed off to their homes.   Beth spent the night tossing and turning; she just couldn’t sleep.   She missed her best friend, and she felt so bad about the argument.   Finally in the middle of the night, she got up and headed to Mary’s house to make amends.   As she gets about halfway, there is Mary right in front of her, running toward her house.   So they both met in the middle, expressed their sorrow over the incident and tearfully hugged each other, best friends again! My guess is that we have all been in a sim...
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  14 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 11:25-30 The “Little Ones” Open Market, Jerusalem I don’t care how old we are or how old we feel; there is something about summers, even one as oppressively hot and humid as this one, that brings out the child in all of us.   We become nostalgic; we reminisce and try to recapture those care-free times from the past.   Running through the sprinklers or racing down the slip-n-slide.   Chasing the ice cream truck – haven’t seen one down here in Tennessee!   Riding bikes with our friends around the neighborhood.   Swinging so high the poles came out of the ground.   Picking berries and catching fireflies.   Family vacations, watermelon and lemonade, campfires, sunsets on the beach and endless games of catch or badminton over the fence.   They were times of innocence and happiness, times when we appreciated the value of friendship and family, when we listened to stories from Papa or great-g...
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  Saturday – 13 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 9:14-17 Celebrate! Irish Singers at the Jaffa Gate The Pharisees in today’s Gospel are complaining to Jesus that His disciples do not fast like any fine upstanding Jews.   Jesus’ reply is a reminder to us all that, even in the midst of fear and sadness, of troublesome weather and even more troubling times, we should not avoid celebrating those moments of joy, those moments in life that call for laughter and child-like wonder. Happy 4 th of July!   Are you happy?   Do you really feel like celebrating? Is your whole family gathering to celebrate like you’ve done in the past?   We are living in a time of divisive language and rhetoric, a time of unrest and fear, a time of high prices and even higher temperatures! What the heck is there to celebrate?   Jesus reminds us today that there are times when we NEED to celebrate, to remind ourselves of who we are and all that we have – friends, family,...
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