October  18, 2020

From Norm Constantine - a first time in my blog - but on the masthead since June 2007!

Reflection

I have been thinking about what it means to be a Catholic as I try to figure out how to help Father Costello update his Blog. I am not having any thoughts that make any sense nor an I figuring out how to help Father Andy.

Everything seems to have changed. I do not know what I am going to do,

 October  18, 2020

Thought for Today

 

“Learn to say ‘no’;  it will be more useful  to you than to be able to read Latin.”

                                                                                   Charles Haddon Spurgeon

 October  17,  2020

ECHOES

If we echo our parents all our lives,

without realizing it 99% of the time -

then when we get together with 

our brothers and sisters at a funeral

or a wedding or family gathering,

     our parents long gone,

we ought to be listening to each other

and hear our parents perhaps for the first time.

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 

 October  16,  2020

WAS  GOD  SURPRISED?

 

Was God surprised when they beat
on Jesus?  Was God surprised when
they spit on him and cursed him and
crucified him? Was God surprised
when the Son came home with broken
hands and thorns still stuck in his
matted hair and bloody skull?
 
Jesus talked about banquet halls and
homecoming celebrations. When the
Father saw him coming up the road,
did he wince and ask, “What were
they like?” And what did Jesus answer?
Did he cry? Did he say, “Like fig trees
they need more time. They need more time.”

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020

 October 17,  2020

Thought for Today

 

 “The one thing harder than sticking to a diet is keeping quiet about it.”

 

Someone

 October  16,  2020

Thought for Today

 

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is,  “Try to please everybody.”   

Herbert Swope

 October 15,  2020

BECAUSE?

 

“They are talking about him behind his back.
But nobody is taking to him. Why not?
Why won’t they come right out and tell him?”
 
“Because?”
 
“Well,  because you just can’t go right up to
a person  and say, ‘You can’t do what you’re
doing. You can’t be the way you are?’”
 
“Because?”
 
“Well, because – you know – you just can’t
be that way. Besides, what would it be it be like
if everyone did whatever they wanted to do?”

“Because?”
 
“Well, I don’t know. It just causes stress.
It makes things queasy and uneasy. It allows
agita to be sitting in every seat in the room.”
 
“Because?”
 
”Because!” “Because!” “Because!”
You keep saying, “Because. Because!
Why do you keep doing that?”
 
“Because …."

 

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020