My
Companions pray with me: LORD,
you give us life yet we often seek fame or power or fortune. Help us to live lives filled with love, wonder, and enthusiasm... like children at their best. Forgive us for the times we have failed one another and help us to love those who have harmed us through acts of commission or omission. Please give us what we need and help our efforts to serve as good stewards of your creation. May your name be praised in the love we share. Thank you for Mike DePriest's healing; continue your healing touch. Please help Danielle Lay find healing and guide her parents and doctors.
Birthdays: Hazel Quinn Figaro (9/24), Michael Olson (9/25); In Memoriam: Becky Peterson (9/30).
Keeping In-touch: Our trip to the hills provided great natural entertainment: we saw the confrontation of two bull elk and, as Marge said, "That was National Geographic Live!" We celebrated Marge's birthday quite well and it looks like a florist's shop in our sitting room. I have a little more free-time: I'm not doing the Jesus of Nazareth/Christ of Faith series at the parish. The LORD may be telling me, "Respect those talents I have given you.Choose the greater of the many goods I offer you." There's a bit of a nip in the air these mornings; we're pleased to have broken the heat spell.
The Readings: Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Some Commentary: Fr. John Foley, S. J.
My comments and an invitation for your comments: I work hard and I desire to do great things. Except for the competition with my friend, Bill, on the tennis court, I don't think I bicker, like Jesus' followers, about "who will be greater." But I have received the brunt of the "jealousy and selfish ambition [that] exist" even in our parish community. And I fear the "disorder and every foul practice" that continues to threaten our church and our world. I will work this week to accept and seek the glory of God like a child.
Some Commentary: Fr. John Foley, S. J.
My comments and an invitation for your comments: I work hard and I desire to do great things. Except for the competition with my friend, Bill, on the tennis court, I don't think I bicker, like Jesus' followers, about "who will be greater." But I have received the brunt of the "jealousy and selfish ambition [that] exist" even in our parish community. And I fear the "disorder and every foul practice" that continues to threaten our church and our world. I will work this week to accept and seek the glory of God like a child.
Let us open ourselves to follow Jesus and become servants of all.
John
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