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  Tuesday – 29 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 12: 35-38 Buckle Up, Buttercup On the Shores of the Dead Sea   Growing up in the rural farmland of Southern Maryland, we never had the chance to join the Boy Scouts.   We were 4H kids through and through, learning to be good citizens and learning how to grow and cultivate potatoes and Japanese yews, for example.   I can still remember harvesting our little plot of potatoes and then the joy of ‘selling’ them to my Dad for him to sell in his country store.   After he subtracted the original cost of the seeds, fertilizer, etc, my brother and I earned a whole 25 cents each.   Which, of course, we immediately spent on candy in the store!   Wow! Granted that wasn’t much of a profit but there were plenty of lessons learned, not the least of which was all the time and effort, the daily care and weeding, and the tilling of the soil.   It wasn’t just throw some seeds in the ground and wait for...
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  Monday – Feast of Sts. John de Brebeuf & Isaac Jogues Gospel – Luke 12:13-21 Rich and Poor Mount of Beatitudes, Galilee One day a very wealthy father took his son on a trip to the country for the sole purpose of showing his son how it was to be poor. They spent a few days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.   After their return from the trip, the father asked his son how he liked the trip. “It was great, Dad,” the son replied. “Did you see how poor people can be?” the father asked. “Oh Yeah,” said the son. “So what did you learn from the trip?” asked the father. The son answered, “I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden, and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden, and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches the front yard and they have the whole horizon. We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go...
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  29 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 22:15-21 A Flip of the Coin Coins There was a man who kept a garden in his back yard and every year would grow a variety of vegetables to help feed his family.   But one year, for whatever reason, his garden completely failed, nothing grew at all.   And yet his neighbor, his good friend, had an abundant harvest, loads of tomatoes, zucchini, etc.   So, in frustration and upset, he decided to steal from his neighbor.   So late one night he went out into the darkness to steal from his neighbor’s garden. But he didn’t go alone; he took along his little boy to keep a look-out in case anyone should come along. The man jumped over the fence with a large bag on his arm, and before commencing to take the corn he looked all around to make sure no one was watching, first to the left and then to the right, behind him and in front, and not seeing anyone, he was just about to start filling his bag. And tit was then tha...
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