![]() ![]() What would you like me to do with it? Publish it? Sell it? Destroy it? What would any of us do with such a record? Face it, we are all so very human, so frail, so broken, and yet so beloved! It contains a complete record of every single thing you did yesterday, every word, every action. I’m holding in my hand a computer memory stick. Great Spirit, show me today how to live! Give me the courage to do Your Will! Even when we feel at a loss for words when we seek to comfort others and ease their fears, God tells us not to worry! The Holy Spirit will be with us to guide us and to teach us! He is there to support us, to comfort us, to sustain us. It is a good reminder to us all that, even in this time of sickness and fear for the future, God will not abandon us. Do not worry! Even in such dark times, Ignatius did not waver in his faith in God and he continued to spread the Word, even when he stood before his judge and executioner in Rome. Keep the Faith! Acknowledge Me before others. He serves as an example of Jesus’ words today in the Gospel. Even after he was arrested and then transported to Rome for execution, he was greeted by many of the faith along the journey and he continued to keep the faith by writing letters of encouragement emphasizing unity and the humanity/divinity of Jesus. He was the 3rd Bishop of Antioch after St. ![]() It’s a reminder to us that we have responsibilities not only to the left and the right, behind us and in front, but also responsibilities above, to our Father in Heaven. But even the simplest of coins today, a penny, should remind us – United States of American on one side, In God We Trust on the other! Life isn’t about a simple flip of the coin, heads or tails. And Paul echoes the same belief - we are loved by God, chosen by Him, filled with the Gospel and the Holy Spirit.Īnd in both stories, it’s the SON who gets it! It isn’t an either/or question! We are both human and children of God! We just forget it sometimes. While the father, the Pharisees were so focused on the IMAGE of Caesar, they all forgot about another IMAGE they forgot that they were made in the IMAGE of God! They forgot their responsibilities as a child of God.Ģnd Isaiah reminds us that God has chosen each of us, called us by name, protected us from the rising to the setting of the sun. They were focused only on their human responsibilities, civil law, thinking only of themselves! They were only concerned with the “human image of Caesar”, just like the father in the story. Their basic question completely missed the point. And no matter what answer Jesus gives, it would divide and anger the crowd. And they thought they finally got Him! Should we pay taxes to Caesar? They thought their question demanded an either/or answer. Those Pharisees weren’t interested in learning from Jesus they were looking for a way to trap Him. Probably a model citizen during the day in his words but in the darkness, his actions tell a completely different story. ![]() ![]() In a way, he was acting like the Pharisees in today’s Gospel – thinking only of himself. He knows he has responsibilities – to himself, to his family, to his community, to civil law – but he chooses to take a negative track on it – thinking only of himself and his physical and financial needs. He knew the law and that, if he was caught, he could be arrested and charged with a crime. I have to give that dad a little bit of credit he did get one thing right! He knew the difference between right and wrong otherwise he wouldn’t have done the deed in the middle of the night. And tit was then that his son yelled out: Dad, You forgot to look up. The man jumped over the fence with a large bag on his arm, and before commencing to take the corn he looked all around to make sure no one was watching, first to the left and then to the right, behind him and in front, and not seeing anyone, he was just about to start filling his bag. But he didn’t go alone he took along his little boy to keep a look-out in case anyone should come along. So late one night he went out into the darkness to steal from his neighbor’s garden. So, in his frustration and upset, he decided to steal from his neighbor. And yet his neighbor, his good friend, had an abundant harvest, loads of tomatoes, zucchini, etc. But one year, for whatever reason, his garden completely failed, nothing grew at all. There was a man who kept a garden in his back yard and every year would grow a variety of vegetables to help feed his family. ![]()
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