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November ‎ 21, ‎ 2012 Memorial for Rose Etta Wade Udint (nee Pugh) Dec. 30 1906-Dec 23, 1993 According to the liturgical protocol, the homily is not supposed to be about the deceased person.   However, my grandmother’s prayer life and spirituality was an inspiration to me.   It was thanks to her, I was encouraged to read the bible before it was customary for most Catholics to do so. You may wonder about my reasons for having a Catholic memorial service for my Baptist grandmother.   She was catechized by an old Irish Catholic friend of ours and through helping me learn my own catechism as a child.   She watched Bishop Fulton Sheen on television, had statues of Our Lady and the saints.   She firmly believed that “the family that prayed together, stayed together”, and so we prayed the rosary. Once on a visit home, I asked her why she never became a Catholic and she said simply, “Latin and the music.”   I think if she knew the changes made to the Mass after Vatican II,

First Sunday of Advent – December 1 st , 2019 Isaiah 2:1-5, Roman 13:11-14, Matthew 24.37-44 The passage from Isaiah could be seen as God’s plan for nations.   The passages from Romans and Matthew, elaborate on the ways to get there. The almost unending state of war that is going on in various parts of the world and the threat of climate catastrophe are the backdrop of the dream that follows.   I say dream because it is a vision of hope for the coming of God's intended world of peace and justice for all and where “all nations will walk in God's light. “ Isaiah was writing in the time of early agrarian societies. In those days during times of war, potentates forced farmers to melt down their pitchforks, hoes and other farm tools so that they could be turned to tools of war.   Farm implements along with their owners were conscripted to fight in the armies of potentates.   Today, scientists are conscripted by the military and industrial agents of