Tuesday – St. Philip Neri Gospel – Mark 10:28-31 Sacrifice! Dad My Dad began working in a little country store at the age of 16 and retired from that same store over 50 years later. It was part gas station, part ice cream stand, part deli and liquor store, post office, supermarket and local gathering spot. After hours, it was also home for a long string of brotherly games of poker. During all those 50 some years, my Dad ran the store on his own, hardly ever took a vacation, and worked roughly from 5 in the morning to 10 at night, at least 6 days a week. During the school year we basically say him only at dinnertime for about an hour. In the last 10 years of the store’s existence, he was also doing double-duty as the postmaster. And yet in spite of all the hardships, somehow out of that tiny little store, he managed to put all four of his children through high school and college. I have yet to figure out how he managed to ac...
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