Everyday Abundant

Have you been doing the readings lately? If you have, have you noticed that we’re being steeped in Isaiah? Or do those two sentences have you completely confounded? If so, here’s some context.

The Catholic Church has a schedule of scripture readings for the entire year, with an Old Testament passage, a Psalm, and a Gospel passage for each day. (Sundays get an extra New Testament reading.) This schedule is universal, meaning if you were to go to Mass on a given day, people going to Mass in any other place on earth on that same day would be hearing the same readings as you. Reading the daily readings is something many Catholics do, even when they can’t go to Mass. (Here and here are a couple of good places to get the daily readings.)

It’s been a good week for the garden but a bad week for the world. So please, enjoy these pictures of the produce I grew and fed to my family and the flowers I cut for my dining room table while I unload my heart.

My very least favorite thing about living through this pandemic is by far all the division it is causing. We are a people divided. Maybe we’ve always been divided, but the cause of division has never been so obvious - as in right there, on-your-face obvious. And it’s not just the masks. We are divided on restrictions to business operation, we are divided on schools re-opening, we are divided on how public worship should or should not be conducted. These are not just differing opinions. These are deep division and if we are not careful they will become breeding ground for all sorts of other new maladies; mistrust, resentment, gossip, slander.

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