Sunday Basics
A Monarch in My Butterfly Bush (Photo taken by Jean M. Heimann) This is only one of the many monarchs that have been inhabiting the butterfly bush recently. Twenty-Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today's Mass Readings Two resolutions worthy of your serious consideration today in relation to earthly goods are: Never let them take up all your time. You have a far more serious purpose in life. Give it a little more thought and enterprise than you have been doing. Secondly, be grateful to God for what He has given you in this life. You might like to have a lot more, but God knows best. Work honestly and be generous with what you have. You are serving God, not money. God will be waiting for you where there is no currency, and where the one bank account that matters will be the good use that you made of your time and your share of this world's goods while you were alive. On This Day in Catholic History: 79 Pope Linus died. Saint Linus is the second leader of the Christian church in t...