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Easter is BIG – it takes 50 days to celebrate it. Why 50? Because Jesus spent 40 days on earth appearing to his disciples and teaching them. At the end of this time, he ascended to the Father. For nine days (the first Novena), 120 of the disciples, including Mary and the Apostles, were in prayer and fear in the upper room...

Lent is over! Now the more devout among us who pledged to surrender some pleasure, engage in prayer or perform some good work for all those weeks of the Lent are set free from our resolutions. Whether we were 100% successful or fell short repeatedly, it’s all in the past...

As the great events of Holy Week approach, we again face the question of why Jesus died.  Some reflections… 

In the average home in America, there are 300,000 items, which helps explain the fact that 10% of us rent offsite storage and ¼ of people with two car garages do not have room to park their cars... During Hurricane Harvey, we realized how much stuff we’ve got. And many of us discovered how much we can do without. The Jesus issue here is sharing our bounty with others.

Last year, a Catholic deacon and his family immigrated to Miami from Venezuela. Upon their arrival, the father asked his children where they would like to go first.  We can guess at their answers: Disney World, McDonald’s, Miami Beach. Their reply: “can we please go to a grocery store?”