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  Wednesday – Nativity of St. John the Baptist Gospel – Luke 1:57-66, 80 Diminishing Returns Church of John the Baptist, Ein Karem, Israel For anyone who may have missed it, this past Sunday, June 21, was the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.   Here in Tennessee, sunrise was at 6:19am, and sunset at 8:59pm; that’s over 14 hours and 36 minutes of sunlight.   And from that moment on, daylight slowly diminishes until we reach winter solstice, the shortest day of the year on Deeember 21, when we will have only 9 hours and 42 minutes of sunlight.    From that moment on, daylight will then increase! So what?? We celebrate today the Birth of John the Baptist.   It is his mother Elizabeth who insists that he will be called John, not Zechariah like his father.   He will be called John even though no one else in the family has that name.   He will be unique.   He came to testify to the light, to prepare a people fit for the Lord. Al...
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  Tuesday – 12 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 7:6, 12-14 It Ain’t Easy Being…….Christian Door of Humility, Bethlehem I consider myself a half-way decent handyman, not great but I manage.   I try to get things done, get things fixed.   And during this time of isolation, I certainly have had the time to tackle my honey-do list.   But on occasion, I try to cut corners, to do a quick patch job, and then I pay for it farther down the line.   I slap some paint on a window sill but neglect to scrape and prime the area first.   And then months later, that same sill needs painting again after my quick job flakes away.   I step down from the ladder and drop my foot directly into the paint can!   I hang a picture on the wall but, in the process, I need to spackle a number of nail holes that didn’t work out!   Measure twice, cut once?   Yeah, well, sometimes! We all wish life was easy, manageable, predictable, but that just isn’t...
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  Monday – 12 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 7:1-5 Stop Judging! My Classroom, SPHS An old man meets a young man who asks:   “Do you remember me?” And the old man says no. Then the young man tells him he was his student, And the teacher asks: “What do you do, what do you do in life?”   The young man answers: “Well, I became a teacher.” “Ah, how good, like me?” Asks the old man. “Well, yes. In fact, I became a teacher because you inspired me to be like you.”   The old man, curious, asks the young man at what time he decided to become a teacher. And the young man tells him the following story: “One day, a friend of mine, also a student, came in with a nice new watch, and I decided I wanted it. I stole it, I took it out of his pocket. Shortly after, my friend noticed the his watch was missing and immediately complained to our teacher, who was you. Then you addressed the class saying, ‘This student's watch was stolen during classes today. Whoever st...
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