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Last night I went to Mass with my sister. It was a beautiful service. Simple but nice.

This morning I was planning on going to Oakville for the service there a little early as Pastor John was looking for volunteers to fold the newsletter, tape em and put on labels. I thought I would leave about 10:00 getting there about 10:30. But – I got a call earlier that our printer which was definitely causing us extreme cause for concern on Friday and Saturday (barely got the newsletter printed) was now on total meltdown. He was asking if I knew where something was for the insert. I remembered working on it but with all the trouble with the printer I was pretty sure it never got finished. I said, I will be there in 30 minutes!

He said he would be grateful. He had a lot of distractions (call that interruptions) and would be glad of the help.

So, that made my morning more interesting than I had planned. By the time I got there he had decided to put the whole bulletin on a power point since we couldn\’t print it. While I was working on the power point I came to the part where it gave the title of his sermon. It was \”Expect Persecution!\” When I saw that I just laughed. No wonder we were having all this trouble. What could we expect with a sermon like that? Obviously someone was not happy about it.

And sure enough, Pastor John\’s  sermon was excellent and something for slimy head to be upset about.

We have started putting the sermons online and I will share the link tomorrow just in case anyone is interested. Pastor John always begins with a Children\’s talk and this one was especially funny. He wanted to bring the sense of right and wrong down to a child level. So he asked them this question. \”What would you do if I said I would give you a candy bar if you hit your sister? Would you do it?\”

One little voice piped up. Think it was a girl but couldn\’t tell from where I was sitting. \”I would have to wait till after lunch!\” she said.

Well, obviously she knew when she could eat that candy bar and no sense doing anything about it any earlier I guess.

The next question he asked was, \”What if I said I would give you ten dollars if you slapped your dad?\”

This time I definitely think it was a little boy, said, \”You could buy a lot of neat stuff with that!\”

Well, yeah kid, I guess you could. Not sure if you would be able to sit down for a week but go ahead and give it a shot.

Oh too funny. There is definitely a challenge when giving sermons to children. Us older folk, we may think those things but we\’ve wised up enough to know we just don\’t blurt them out in front of the whole congregation!

The sermon for the adults was very good. Not as funny perhaps but great.

Rosary Book Update:

Day 22 of Book Production

153 days till Publication

Prayed a couple of rosaries but that was it. Sunday\’s I usually take off from work even for the BOOK! That is if I behave myself. I don\’t always. Thought I better say that, just in case God was listening.