THIRD SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
24 January 2021 I’ve often wondered why some of the stories we’re told about the calling of the disciples, Have to do with the calling of fishermen. Why fishermen? I don’t have a lot of experience with fishing. I always tell people who ask if I fish–I like to sit in a boat on a nice sunny day once a summer. I like to hang the line over the edge of the boat with a bobber, and I don’t care if I fall asleep and the bobber goes under. That’s my idea of fishing. It wasn’t my father’s though. My father was a serious fisherman. He never...
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January 21, 2021 Parish Update
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17 January 2021 I would not be here today, standing in front of you, were it not for my parents, who chose over and over, to teach me about God, to make me do what was right or good, when my childish or adolescent desires would have chosen differently. I would not be here today, had not the sisters at St. Florians, had the goodness to sacrifice their lives and come to a one horse backwater village, who choose over and over to love us enough to teach us, and to teach us about God by the example of their own lives. I would not be here today,...
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10 January 2021 In the last scene of the movie “Rag Time,” the central character, a black man who has fought for dignity throughout the movie, sits with his head in his hands, crying, and shouts to God, “Tell me what to do, tell me what to do. All along I kept waiting for a sign, sure that you would make known to me what I should do. I can’t wait any longer, tell me.” Those of us who are bystanders to this man’s agony do not hear any message, do not see any sign, we know only that the man in the...
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