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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time |
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| Background:
Today’s
story is just that, a story. Jesus is not endorsing any particular theology of the
hereafter. He is rather making the point that we should seize all the opportunities for
charity and responsibility which come along in our life. We only go around once as the old
beer add used to tell us. Hence we must not so much as grab the glistening beer bottle as
pursue all the opportunities to do good that we encounter. |
read the padre |
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Story:
Once
upon a time two girls joined Molly Whoopy’s girl’s basketball team at Mother
Mary High School. They were very good players, but they didn’t like to practice hard.
One of them became a starter and the other sixth person. During games they played real
hard, but because they didn’t practice much and didn’t listen to the coach’s
talks, and made all kinds of mistakes. The coach goes to Molly, like, maybe we should
throw them off the team. Sondra and Sonia, for that were their names, began to campaign to
stay on the team. They were cute and funny and charming. They talked to every girl on the
team, they tried to charm the coach, they had a party for the team, they gave the other
players presents, they even showed up on time for practice, though they didn’t
practice very hard. They took Molly to the ice cream store at the Mall and bought her a
double chocolate malt with whipped cream because they knew Molly was a chocolate freak.
Finally, they’re like, “Molly, you know, we’ve been real dweebs, you know,
but we, you know really want to stay on the team.” But Molly’s like, “if
you had put in as much time and energy on practice as you have on charming everyone, then
we’d be in first place. I’m like telling the coach you should be 11th
and 12th on the team and earn your way back up. they weren’t very happy
with that decision because, you know there are only ten players on team. But Molly goes to
her boyfriend Joe, “Why didn’t they work at basketball.” And Joe’s
like “it’s easier to buy you a double chocolate malt.” And Molly’s
like WELL, it didn’t do them any good.”
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