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  Monday – Pope St. Leo the Great    (revisited) Gospel – Luke 17:1-6 What A Drag! Stone of Calvary, Church of Holy Sepulchre Daylight savings time ended last Sunday and, I don’t know about you, but I am still adjusting. Now I’m getting up around 4am instead of 5am.   Ugh!   While I appreciate, at least for one night, getting an extra hour of sleep, sunset happening at 4:30 in the afternoon is rather depressing.   We are quickly heading into winter, longer nights of darkness, shorter days of sunlight.   Cold and darkness!   For many of us, it can be a time of isolation and sadness, depression and hopelessness.   It tends to drag us down and put us into the doldrums. And that takes us to today’s Gospel and the one word that resonates with me – millstones!   Millstones are huge circles of stones used to grind grain down into flour.   In the ancient world, millstones weighed hundreds of pounds.   Just imagine one of them d...
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  Sunday - Dedication of St. John Lateran Basilica Gospel – John 2:13-22 Constancy! The Western Wall, Jerusalem We celebrate today the Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome.   Dedicated in 324 AD, the Basilica is the cathedral of Rome, the official seat of the Bishop of Rome and the mother of all churches throughout the world. It is the first public building granted to Christians as a worship site by Constantine.   It is quite unusual that we have a feast day honoring an object, as opposed to a person.   I can only think of one other – Feast of the Chair of St. Peter. Today’s Gospel reflects on another religious object – the Temple in Jerusalem.    It was the center of Jewish life at the time of Jesus; it was a place to gather and worship for all major feasts and celebrations.   The very life of a Jew revolved around this magnificent house of prayer and sacrifice.   From birth to coming of age to remembrance of Passo...
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  Saturday – 31 st Week in Ordinary Time Gospel – Luke 16:9-15 Money Can’t Buy Me Love Open Market, Old City of Jerusalem 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 to 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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