July 25, 2021 17Th Sunday of Ordinary Time 13900 Biscayne Ave
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JULY 25, 2021 17TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME 13900 BISCAYNE AVE. W ROSEMOUNT, MN 55068 PHONE: 651-423-4402 www.stjosephcommunity.org Weekend Mass times: Saturday: 5:00 pm Sunday: 7 am, 8:30 am, & 10:30 am PADRE PAUL’S PONDERINGS My Grandparents and My Journey to Sainthood Growing up I was blessed to live pretty close to both my It’s a very appropriate Gospel for the feast day, because it is grandparents on my mom and dad’s side of the family. our grandparents who are instrumental in helping the roots of our faith to grow. My parents met in high school in the early 70s, and were actually just a few blocks apart. Their parents continued to live First and foremost, to all of our grandparents, thank you so in their homes in north Minneapolis, and visiting them was a much. We have a vibrant grandparents ministry program here regular part of my life from when I can first remember on up at Saint Joe’s, and each year in our school we have through seminary. grandparent’s day near Thanksgiving. I often see grandparents too with grandchildren at Mass, and never forget the role you On the one hand like so many people, there are great play in helping the faith grow in your grandchildren. memories. Let’s face it, you sometimes get extras at grandma and grandpa’s, like an extra cookie or treat, a little extra Second, the reason I mention in the title to this week’s column sugar, or when sleeping over you maybe get to stay up a little that my grandparents help me on my journey is that as I say extra late. There’s plenty of those memories to be sure. My often, I am striving to continually grow in holiness. I’m a work in grandma Pat for instance made home made cinnamon toast progress. I look back on the great memories, but while every that was 80% cinnamon, 20% bread, and I’d also be treated day on my elliptical machine I watch episodes of “The Price is to corn flakes which became homemade Frosted Flakes with Right” from 1982 and 1983 (yes there’s an online TV channel generous amounts of sugar. She also made the best chocolate for that, God bless technology) that I likely saw when new chip cookies I’ve ever had. My grandpa Henry would take me watching them with grandpa on a summer day, I can’t go back on rides in his 1973 Caprice Classic; my grandpa Mike his to that point in my life. All of my grandparents have left this 1972 Buick LeSabre, and there were no car seats but I was earth. But they live on forever in the love of God in His given the freedom to ride on the arm rest. Grandpa Mike was Kingdom, and we are still connected; they pray for me, and I a deputy sheriff; so I got his old hat to wear. He also was a TV also look to the example of their lives as a reminder that I can repairman, so had old TVs in the basement along with some strive for holiness as they lived out their lives. I can be more very cool equipment. My grandma Evelyn would often walk patient, more tolerant, more caring, more prayerful, more with me up to a train yard (Humboldt Yard) where we’d watch charitable. I look at them and pray for them daily, but also Soo Line and Milwaukee Road locomotives roll on by, (which think of them when I look at the old photos or items passed fostered a love for trains I still have which is why you may see a down that are now at the rectory that they made or once had, guy with a camera photographing trains every so often by the and I am inspired to try to grow in holiness. I know they are in historic depot off of Robert Trail). Needless to say there are my corner and always will be. many more memories that would fill many pages in this space. In all of us, we are striving to have the faith grow. It begins with However from my grandparents I also learned a lot about my birth and the Spirit blesses us at our Baptism. And it’s people in faith. our lives who can do so much to help that faith grow. Grandparents do more than just give a 5 year old a magical I’d often see my grandparents pray in the morning or evening place where the rules get bent more often than at home. They when visiting. They’d faithfully go to church. And as I became help us learn what it truly means to live out our faith; to love more aware of things, they would explain the faith to me such one another as I have loved you. as what happened at Mass, the meaning of the prayers, and pray with me. I’d even offer a fake Mass wearing grandpa’s Now about to turn 44 soon, I’d love to be able to borrow the bowling shirt, using Pan-o-Gold bread, juice of some kind, with keys and take my grandpa Henry’s Caprice or Grandpa Mike’s the altar being the hi-fi stereo and turntable. As I got older, LeSabre for a spin. That’s not an option, but it doesn’t mean they also gave me prayer books that they had collected. I’d that on the road of life I don’t have people who are helping me also of course see them live out the faith with how they treated find my way to the final destination. So do you. And even if you me and our family and how they cared so much for other didn’t get the chance to get to know your grandparents, pray people. for them, learn about their history and stories and journey, and visit the cemetery from time to time. Having hundreds of This Monday, July 26th, our Church has the feast day of Saints funerals that almost always involve grandchildren, death is Joachim and Anne, who were the parents of Mary. We know cruel, and we can’t mask that reality. But Jesus forever changes very little about them, and also do not know if Jesus had the death through the resurrection and calls us to follow Him. chance to meet them. But traditionally we’ve honored them as Let’s never forget the many ways our grandparents help us to the patron saints of grandparents. Our Gospel for Monday is do just that. from Matthew 13: 31-35, which tells the parable of the Have a very blessed week, mustard seed. The seed is the smallest, but when full grown becomes a large bush we are told. Jesus also speaks of the Fr. Paul yeast which a woman mixes with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened. STEWARDSHIP ST. 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