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  Sunday – Feast of Corpus Christi Gospel – John 6:51-58 The Joy of the Eucharist Server Training For over 15 years, I have been blessed and energized by my ministry to our altar servers at SRB – training them, mentoring and encouraging them.   Throughout these 15 years, I would visit the 4 th graders and invite them to become servers.   But this past year was different!   This time I decided to include the 3 rd graders in my ‘server appeal’.   When I opened the church doors after school for training, imagine my shock when I saw the crowd (and I do mean crowd) coming in the doors.   I thought, for sure, maybe there was a children’s choir practice.   But NO!   They were all there for server training!   Over half the 3 rd grade class were trained that day.   WOW! They were so excited, so energized and so attentive, the most attentive group of ‘newbies’ I have ever seen.   The reason seemed obvious.   They were still ba...
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  Saturday – 9 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Mark 12:38-44 A Helping Hand Streets of Old Jaffa (Tel Aviv)   Back when Ginger worked downtown and had to brave the Kennedy during rush hour (which usually lasts all day, so a rush-day), she would always encounter a number of homeless and destitute looking for a handout.   She found it difficult to try and fumble around looking for loose change at the last minute.   So she came up with a simple solution, one that required a bit of planning ahead.   She created little Ziplock bags of goodies – granola bars, chocolate, maybe some fresh fruit – and kept a supply at the ready in the car.   It might not seem like much to us but, for those in need, it was kind and thoughtful. Which brings us to today’s Gospel where we see once again the hypocrisy of the Scribes who always seem to be ‘on parade’ in their fancy and colorful clothes.   They take the best seats in the synagogue and at wedding feasts an...
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  Friday – 9 th Week of Ordinary Time    Gospel - Mark 12:35-37 Scratching my head! The Chair Ever have the experience of going to a teacher to get them to explain something they said in class?   And the teacher provides a lengthy, confusing, convoluted response.   And you walk away even more confused and even more filled with questions than you did before!    Yes, I know, many of my students had that happen when I talked about the “ chair ”.   So many questions!     Even my grandsons were like: “please don’t go there; you’re making my head hurt”, Sometimes, I offered too few words in explanation.   I can’t begin to count how many times I would write a single word on a student’s report or homework assignment.   VAGUE!!!   Yes, I know, that was probably not very helpful! In many ways, throughout the Gospels, Jesus does exactly that.   He challenges us, makes us think and not just blindly swallow whatever He is...
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