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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 . . .? |
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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.
July Homilies:
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will speak peace to his people, to his saints, to those who turn to him in
their hearts.
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