Tuesday – Memorial of St. Leo the Great

Gospel – Luke 17-7-10

Service With A Smile

Church of Dormition, Jerusalem

5 years ago, Ginger and I had a pretty consistent routine.  Every Sunday night we would sit down and look at the calendar for the week.  The goal?  To see if there were any nights when we would both be home for dinner!  Most weeks that translated to one night, maybe two if we were lucky.  Otherwise, it was dinner for one or dinner on the run as we navigated various meetings, services, RCIA, Baptismal Prep, etc.  And that doesn’t even include all that we did as spouses, as grandparents and as caregivers for her elderly mom and dad – cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping and shuttling her parents to doctor appointments.

Nowadays, the routine is very different.  We take it day by day, no more long-range prep.  We get up, assess our aches and pains and only then do we make decisions on how best to take care of each other, manage our own medical appointments and help out Jaime and Josh where we can with jobs around the ‘family ponderosa’.  A new routine, certainly much different and simpler, but still a routine and still trying to be of service to Him and to each other.

Jesus calls us all today to live out our faith in service to God and to others. We are all called to be true servants and true disciples.  May we all set aside some time this in our hectic mad rush of the modern world - time to reflect and appreciate all that we do and offer praise and gratitude to our Father.

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