One comic strip shows a cat wearing vestments and a Roman collar standing behind a pulpit, emoting to his congregation consisting of one little kitten. She stares in rapt attention at the great orator. Later, a passer by hears screeching and yowling and finds the preacher trying to immerse the kitten in a washtub. “Hey!”…
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Bulletin
Bulletin
In today’s Gospel, the vineyard owner decides to be persistent and give the unproductive tree one more year before he has to cut it down. It’s like the persistent woman who was about ready to give up computers forever. She always forgot her password when she tried to go online. “I had this problem for…
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The movie “Cast Away” is a story of solitude that begins when a plane crashes in the ocean and the sole survivor is washed up on an uninhabited island. He learns how to fish and make fire and he finds water in a cave, but the solitude is a different matter. Like Jesus, he is…
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