Jack’s Winning Words  4/23/20
“Love makes everything that is heavy, light.”  (Thomas a Kempis)  My cousin was a Catholic priest…a good one.  He became frustrated with how the Cardinal was treating minorities; he left the priesthood and eventually married a nun.  Together, they became advocates in work among minorities.  In their marriage, they found that love helped make heavy burdens, lighter.  You don’t have to be a former priest/nun to see the truth in this.  How has “love” helped you?   ;-)  Jack   

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  Love heals, helps, uplifts, strengthens, fortifies, comforts and upholds us!===JACK:  Love-Hope-Charity...Love is the greatest!

FROM ST PAUL:  Wow!  i never knew this.  he sounds like Martin Luther with Katie.  hopefully he didn't find his wife in a barrel that had formerly held fish!   (she was smuggled out of the convent as  you recall).   i love the joke about the Monk who took a vow of silence when he entered the monastery.  he could speak two words a year to the Abbott.  at the end of the first year he said  "bad food".  the next year he said,  "hard bed".   the third year he said "I quit".   the Abbott replied,  Doesn't surprise me one bit.  all  you have done since you got here was complain, complain, complain!  ===JACK:  My first funeral after ordination was for my grandmother.  My cousin and I did it together.  My ministry began in an ecumenical way.  The first inter-faith service including Catholics was held at my congregation with my cousin as the speaker.  It was the first time that the Cardinal had approved such a service in the Chicago Archdiocese.