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15th Sunday
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| Background:
It can hardly be said that your typical up-to-date parish travels light. It has
voice mail and a computer web page and seventy or so organizations and several committee
meetings and a full parking lot every night and big athletic and drama programs and a
large lay staff and a budget that runs to six or even seven figures every year. It’s
not exactly the sort of community you could pick up and move across the country at a
moment’s notice. None of this is necessarily bad. However today’s liturgy
reminds us once again that we must not permit ourselves to become so deeply involved with
out means as to forget our ends. Which are . . .? |
read the padre |
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Story: Once upon a time a family was packing
their huge and dangerous SUV for a two week vacation. There were two parents, two big
kids, two smaller kids and one gorgeous little five month old baby girl who gurgled and
smiled at everyone. There were a lot of things to pack into the SUV – the beach toys
for the small kids (which would have filled an ordinary car) the sports equipment for the
big boy who could go on vacation unless he was prepared for basketball, baseball, football
and soccer, and clothes for the older girl and the mom who could only travel with enough
clothes so they would be ready for a week of formal dinners and dances. As they piled
stuff into the SUV the mother gave the baby in her car seat to the big girl who put her on
the lawn next to the van. Well, eventually the SUV was loaded and there was just enough
room for the family to climb in. They’d gone two miles when the mother counted noses
and came up one short, one tiny baby nose. I won’t recount th fights as they raced
back to find the baby. They pulled into the driveway and found the baby’s car seat
EMPTY! They were about to call the police when two teen age girls from the house next door
appeared with the baby who was grinning and smiling and gurgling happily. “We saw her
out there in her car seat and figured we’d take care of her till you came back.”
They made room for the car seat in all the other mess. The baby smiled contentedly and
promptly went to sleep. It was a quiet ride to the lake.
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