Category: Mysteries of Life
It is the first week of August, so it is the time for summer melancholy. My wife is ready to go back to school as a teacher, and my children will be starting shortly after.
In this week’s second reading (2 Cor 12:7-10) St. Paul tells us that a “thorn in the flesh was given to me,… to keep me from being too elated.” Other translations say proud or conceited. No one knows what St….
Yesterday I had lunch with a friend who had just received bad news. It was the kind of news where I wanted to be supportive, but was truly at a lose for words. I wished I could have made him laugh, or lightened his load, but I didn’t know what to say. I think I gave him a little hope, but I am not even sure if I was successful in that. We just talked, and I told him I was sorry over and over.
