Abraham, the founder of their race, was a model of hospitality.

Saturday, 7/1/17

(I mistakenly printed this summwry yesterday.) 

In the first reading, Abraham, the father of all Hebrews, gave his descendants an exuberant lesson in hospitality. Rather than take credit for being hospitable, he told the passers by that they would do him a great favor by accepting his hospitality.

 And what hospitality! Abraham had his servants slaughter and roast a young steer. He told his wife to bake them several hundred rolls. He took care of the curds for preparing a giant cheese dip.

Abraham’s wife Sarah was long past the age for bearing children, so she laughed when the chief guest said she would have a baby. The Old Testament, which has a fondness for punning, had Sarah laugh with a sound like Isaac, the son she was to bare..  

Abraham gave his descendants a lesson in hospitality.

Friday, 6/30/17

In the first reading, Abraham, the father of all Hebrews, gave his descendants an exuberant lesson in hospitality. Rather than take credit for being hospitable, he told the passers by that they would do him a great favor by accepting his hospitality.

 And what hospitality! Abraham had his servants slaughter and roast a young steer. He told his wife to bake them several hundred rolls. He took care of the curds for preparing a giant cheese dip.

Abraham’s wife Sarah was long past the age for bearing children, so she laughed when the chief guest said she would have a baby. The Old Testament, which has a fondness for punning, had Sarah laugh with a sound like Isaac, the son she was to bare..   

There is hope for all of us when we see how poorly Peter and Paul behaved at times. ,

Thursday, 6/39/17

Today we honor the two greatest Apostles, Peter and Paul. However, we might see that there is hope for all of us, when we consider how God had to give each of them a good shaking up to get thm to behave worthily.

St. Stephen’s youth and sincerity meant nothing to Paul. When he saw boys picked up rocks to stone Stephen to death.  Paul made it easy for them by holding their coats while they did it. He then, did the legal work that allowed him to go to Damascus to imprison the Christians there.

When Jesus was being tried for his life, Peter was very curious about it; but when asked if he were a follower to Jesus,  he three times protested, “I don’t know the man.” Then, when he saw Paul sitting down to eat with Gentiles, Peter, not wanting to look poorly, refused to join them.