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  Tuesday – 30 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 13:18-21 Small Beginnings Sacred Heart Church, Camden MS (Memories of FJMS) Founded by a Vincentian priest, Father Thomas Augustine Judge, the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity recently celebrates over 100 years of faith and service!   Beginning with a few missions in the American south, its mission was to preserve the Faith in areas and among people who are spiritually neglected and abandoned, especially the poor.   From that humble beginning, the Missionary Servants, including priests, deacons, brothers and novices, are serving in 43 missions in the United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras and Mexico. So consider this!   The history of this missionary community started with one man, Fr. Thomas Augustine Judge, born to Irish immigrants in 1868 in Boston, Massachusetts. The story of his growing faith and missionary outreach is the seed that has born so much fruit in ...
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  Monday – 30 th Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 13:10-17 Come to Me?? Stone of Anointing, Church of Holy Sepulchre As I mentioned yesterday, Ginger and I spent the past 2 weeks at home in Southern Maryland, along with my 2 sisters, working together to help manage our Mom’s care.   Weeks before that, we made a conscious and deliberate decision to travel home, coordinating with my sisters Mary and Theresa on a plan of action.   There was no real cry for help – come home!   There was no MayDay or SOS!   We just recognized all that Mom was going through (not to mention all that Theresa was dealing with) and we made the choice to gather together to work on a care plan! And that is the one little detail we all probably miss in today’s Gospel.   There is no falling at Jesus’ feet – heal me!   There is no ‘come to my house and cure my servant.’   There is no opening of a roof to bring the crrippled man before Jesus!   No!   Instead...
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  30 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel – Matthew 22: 34-40 Love is the Answer Jewish Prayer Shawl Ginger and I have spent the last 2 weeks at the family home in Southern Maryland with my 2 sisters.   It was, at times, an exhausting and stressful experience navigating through a maze of meetings and paperwork involved with a variety of medical and financial decisions as our 101-year-old Mom transitioned from rehab/PT into the assisted care part of the nursing home. You would think that Mom would be completely bewildered and upset with all the sudden changes in her life and lifestyle.   You would think she would be so focused on her aches and pains and worried about the future.   And yet, it was quite the opposite! Our time spent with her was filled with her sharing so many stories and memories, many of which we had never heard – how Dad proposed, how Dad had to ask NnNa for permission to marry (not Pop Pol), and how he built the very house we grew up in and st...
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