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  Tuesday - 28 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 11:37-41 Tea and Sympathy Dad’s Cup So this is your house-cleaning observation of the day.   Tea Stains Are The Worst!   I know this to be true from first-hand experience.   I’ve taken on a few more chores around the house these last 7 months, washing the dishes being one of them.   And trying to remove tea stains from the inside of a teacup is relentless and unending.   They never seem to go completely away.   It makes me glad I am a coffee guy; otherwise, there would be twice as many teacups to clean.   The outside of the cup – no problem!   But the inside, ugh!   I finally found a dishwasher detergent that worked perfectly.   But then I made the mistake of buying something cheaper – ugh!   Back to square 1 Given today’s Gospel, it makes me wonder if Mary had Jesus do the dishes on a regular basis.   It also makes you wonder why people would keep inviting Him...
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  Monday - 28 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 11:29-32 Give Me A Sign Sign, Mount of Beatitudes   Over 6 years ago, right around this same time of October, we were driving in rural upstate New York to visit my brother and his family and we were hopelessly lost.   It was the dead of night, pitch black on a windy twisty country road, no streetlights, no road signs, no signs of civilization.   GPS wasn’t working; even my ‘male’ sense of direction wasn’t functioning.   It was just a bit terrifying.   Every time we got to an intersection, we wrestled with which way to turn.   All we wanted was a sign, anything, that could lead us where we wanted to go.   Eventually we did reach our destination but not without a lot of backtracking and wrong turns; it was not a journey we would want to repeat. We hear about signs in today’s Gospel but the context is quite different.   The people are asking Jesus for a sign.   Prove yourself...
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  28 th Sunday in Ordinary Time - revisited Gospel – Matthew22:1-14 RSVP Mass at St Robert Bellarmine Years ago, I remember going to a business lunch with a group of teachers in New York.   I didn’t realize there was a dress code (jackets) and I didn’t bring one.   The restaurant staff gave me one awful looking slightly smelly jacket that was available just for people like me.   It was embarrassing! We read in today’s Gospel about a wedding feast given by a rich man for his son.   All his friends and relatives were invited; and all refused to come.   They didn’t just forget; they made a deliberate choice not to attend.   Eventually the father invites in anyone/everyone he can find – the poor, the good, the bad.   But when the father comes in to greet all his guests, he sees someone not wearing a wedding garment. Now this is where I always had problems with the parable.   That poor man, how can you expect him to have a wedding garment...
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