In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives the disciples an opportunity to quit when he asks them, “Do you also wish to go away?” We quit a lot of things. As adults, some of us have quit smoking or drinking. Some of us have quit our jobs to strike out in a new career. In most of…
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There’s nothing as tasty as cinnamon bread, the kind with powdered sugar on the top. It’s best toasted and slathered with butter. But just plain, right off the loaf, is good enough. In the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school, the nuns announced that there would be a special cinnamon bread treat for lunch. The…
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Even if you ate 62 hot dogs in one sitting, you would soon be hungry again. Last summer, Joey “Jaws” chestnut won the 97th annual Nathan’s Famous July Fourth International Hot Dog Eating Contest, held in Coney Island, N.Y., when he wolfed down 62 hot dogs in only 10 minutes. For this 2011 achievement he…
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