Twilight Twitches

Dear Family,
As some of you know I've been under the weather a little bit, but it's interesting how opportunities like this give you time to think about things you wouldn't have thought about otherwise.
During the course of this past week we passed the first anniversary of the shootings at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas high school. All the discussion over the last year of what happened and why it happened, certainly helps to highlight the fact that there is much violence in our society. Are we willing to do anything about it?

Dear Family,
So much happens here! We cram 12 months of parish activities into five and no sooner do we celebrate one of them, then the next one whooshes in.

That means there are so many people I want to thank. The Men's Club brought us the Spaghetti Dinner. Great food and great company and it hap-pened under the baton of Maestro Bill Loughran.

No sooner had Bill's confetti been swept up, in comes Trinkets and Treasures under the watchful eye of Mary Ann Smith. I watched Patricio transferring boxes and boxes from our storeroom to the parish hall. Marianne swung into action. Treasure sorting and trinket displaying is no mean feat.

Dear Family,
You may remember me talking about Father Larry Gillick, S.J. For many years he has been on the pastoral staff at Creighton University and I had the great experience of making a retreat with him a few years back. I have stolen the rest of this Twitch from one of his Creighton Online Ministry reflections. I think it's terrific and moving as well. I'll explain at the end.

Here's Fr. Larry
"Last Sunday's Gospel related the story of Jesus' returning to His hometown of Nazareth. We heard that He got up in the Synagogue and read a prophetic passage from Isaiah. Then he declared that He was the fulfillment personally of that very reading.

Dear Family,
Today we celebrate the annual ArchBishop’s Charities Drive. You might think celebrating a collection is a real stretch, but think about it.

In one form or another this diocesan appeal has been going on since the beginning of the diocese of Miami. In 1958 the diocese was split off from St. Augustine, and within six months Bishop Coleman Carroll - later Archbishop – decided to build a seminary, the first south of Baltimore and east of Little Rock. Seemed like a crazy idea.