Greetings to you all. I hope all is well with you and your families.

I am sure that we all have had those days when we find ourselves getting bored with what we are do. The same job, the same housework, the same thing on a Tuesday night for dinner and the list can go on and on. It is like we are on autopilot and don’t have to think about what we are doing.

But it does not have to be like that. It is all the way we look at our lives and the work we are about. Sometimes we can find joy and challenge in our lives just by looking at what we do in just a different way. Change “Toco Tuesday” to Thursday. Challenge ourselves to find another way to do that which we have been doing the same way all our lives. We need to remember that we are more that what we do.

E.F. Schumachar, an economist and statistician says, “Our ordinary minds always tries to persuade us that we are nothing, but acorns and our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns, but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.”

We all have special gifts given us by God. To some they may be very ordinary, but when put to the service of another, we just might become “Another Christ” to that person.

May we all take another look at who we are, and the gifts God has given us. Let us see how we may be able to put these gifts to the service of another, even if it is a good meatball. As I told someone at a wake service who related that the woman who pass away was a neighbor and she took him in when he was locked out of his house and made him some pasta and meatballs, I told him, “A good meatball can cover a multitude of sins.”

Peace and All Good,

Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the

Bros and Srs of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.