Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Where will you sit at the dinner?
My Companions:  Let's pray for all the young people that return to "hit the books."  May they grow not only intellectually and physically but also in wisdom and love of God and others.  And help all the teachers in their preparation; may we teach with enthusiasm and joy! (I wrote this yesterday and received Karen's call for more prayers in the evening: see comments)

Birthdays: James Carnegie (8/26).  Anniversaries: Fr Joe Hirsch (d. 8/24), Mike McClanahan (d. 8/28)

Keeping in-touch: We are enjoying a cooling day today; it seems the summer has been especially hot in the Denver area. We touched base with our friend, Gina Feely, and learned about her study of St Paul at Notre Dame University.  Makayla and Julie return to Denver for almost two weeks.  We're all looking forward to our family reunion on Labor Day Weekend; that should be a good time for story-telling!

The Readings: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Comments on the Readings: Fr. Foley, "Deep within our own selves, in imitation of Jesus, we are capable of making room for love to live in us."
My comments:  Many people have taken our Gospel reading to heart: have you noticed how the back of the church fills up first?  Most of the people I know do "conduct themselves with humility."  I guess the longer we live, the more we take note of how little we know and how short is our time on this planet.

May the peace of Christ be with each of you,

John

2 comments:

  1. Just a quick update: As many of you may have heard by now Dan's leukemia has relapsed. :0( There were leukemia cells in his blood work today so they did an immediate bone marrow biopsy and found leukemia in his marrow. He has a very aggressive form of leukemia so he needs many more prayers. The next step is trying to induce the Graft vs. Host Disease to try to get Tom's cells to fight the cancer. They are going to get some more cells from Tom next week and give them to Dan to help boost this process along. Tom may be too good of a match so they may not recognize the cancer. We hope very much that is not the case. Pray this works. If it does not Dan will have to have another bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor and I have no idea how long it would take to find a match. Pretty rough day but wanted to let you all know. Thanks for your prayers. I will let you know when I know more.

    Karen

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  2. a call to everyone.....

    please pray for hayley and the baby! her water broke and she is only 26 weeks along! the baby is under 2 lbs.! they are at st. joseph hospital. no labor yet, it could be weeks or only days.

    thank you all for your prayers! this boy has been a fighter and with God he will continue.

    Linds

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