Good morning bubbas and sissies!
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Sorry, gotta go say my prayers, shine my boots, and hope that the bad guys don’t look at me carefully enough to see that I couldn’t stop a threatening kitten.
May God bring us all to where we are too busy enjoying Him to be entranced by silly ideas about how splendid we are!
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Okay. I'll continue to discuss the Assumption of Mary, my favorite Holy Day of Obligation. Our substitute musician yesterday played a song for Offertory of which the refrain is (in English, he did it in Spanish): "Teach me, teach me, Mary, to be humble like you. Teach me, teach me, Mary, to do His Will."
If we are humble, like Mary, we will do God's will even if we think it's impossible, even if we think the outcome will be disastrous for us. Consider the young man in today's Gospel, who could not follow Jesus because he was afraid of doing without his "great possessions." What "great possessions" do I refuse to sell in order to follow Jesus? I think it would be easier to dispense with all the Stuff (which makes me so tired, anyway!) than to abandon the self-concept which doesn't always have room for what God wills.
And as a final thought, using the format of this Litany, I had prayed, "That no one show me the same consideration I show them, Lord, grant me the grace to desire it." After considering whether anyone does, the one person I can think of is my mother, the eponymous OldTax-lady. I will send her a note today to let her know how much I appreciate her. There really is nobody like one's mother.
THX FOR THE PING.
AMEN, AMEN.