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Tuesday – 25 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 8:19-21 Family Time St Kateri Center Chapel 6 years ago this week, we paid our respect to one of our Native elders as she took her final journey back to the Creator.   We prayed for her as one family and we honored her for a full life, a life of love and service to her community and to her faith.   One of the most touching and heartfelt words we heard as we stood together in the sunshine was this – she was everybody’s grandma.   Can you imagine what love and affection, what care and concern guided her throughout her entire life for such a statement to be offered! She served her community for decades as a volunteer and social services director.   She devoted herself to caring for the needs of her community.   She treated everyone as family, helping them with donations of food and clothing, toys for the kids and shelter for those in need.   She saw everyone as part of her family and she treated ever...
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  Monday – Feast of St. Matthew the Apostle Gospel – Matthew9:9-13 Hospitality Part 2 Lunch Time, Upper Galilee What a difference a few days make!   Last Thursday we read about a Pharisee inviting Jesus to dinner and the atmosphere was anything but hospitable; in fact, it was downright unfriendly.   And then today Jesus basically invites Himself to dinner at the house of Matthew.   Yes, he was a Jew but he was also a tax collector.   That meant he took money from his own people and handed it over to the enemy- the Romans.   And he probably kept some of the money for himself.   He was considered a traitor by his fellow Jews; he would have been despised and shunned. And yet Jesus invites Himself to Matthew’s home for dinner.   And amazingly, or maybe not, other tax collectors and sinners joined the meal.   Jesus explains to the Pharisees that He hasn’t come for the righteous but for the sinners. In fact, Matthew’s Gospel has this recurr...
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  25 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 20:1-16 It’s Not Fair Basilica of the Annunciation, Nazareth The love of your life is diagnosed with a debilitating disease.   Your elderly mom takes a fall and you struggle to deal with all the stresses of rehab, medical bills, and juggling your other life responsibilities!   Your favorite uncle passes away unexpectedly, and all those wonderful childhood memories come flooding back.   You go through a routine medical exam and discover you have cancer.   It all feels so surreal but it’s not!   It’s like you’ve been cast in the role of Job and you never even audtioned for the part!   And all we can think is – what next?? We all face trials and tribulations!   And in the midst of all that stress and distress, only one thing seems certain/ LIFE IS NOT FAIR!!   That is essentially what we are hearing today in the Gospel.   Laborers in a vineyard who have put in a long full day of work...
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