Twilight Twitches

Dear Family,
Last week I enjoyed introducing Father Antony and the St. Mary community to you so much that I forgot to say Happy Thanksgiving in last Sunday’s Twitch. That plus the fact that, because of printing deadlines, I’m really writing this Twitch on Nov. 16th. Right now, your ‘last week’ is my ‘next week.’ How’s that for total confusion? It’s okay. Sort of goes with the territory these days.

SO, what would I have said to you if this was last Sunday’s pre-Thanksgiving letter? Well, firstly, thanks for reading this. The Twitches are my way of trying to keep us in touch with each other. I don’t labor under any illusion that they are masterpieces of prose. However, writing forces me to stop and think a little bit about the who, what, where, when, and most of all, the why of St. Sebastian.

Dear Family,
I am very happy to welcome a new ‘holy man’ in our midst. He is Father Antony (no ‘h’) Vayalikarottu. Father Antony is the vicar of St. Mary’s Malankara Catholic Church of South Florida.

Their web page tells us that, “St. Mary’s is part of the Syro-Malankara Major Archiepiscopal Church. The Church is in full communion with the Bishop of Rome. The Mission is started by the faithful catholic Malankarites from Kerala, India....”

Dear Family,
Thank you for your contributions to the Respect Life October request for baby stuff. Interesting comment: “We get lots of lovely things for little girls, but we don’t get many clothing items for boys.” I’m toying with the idea of making a run to somewhere and just buying some boys’ stuff, but then I have a vision of running into a parishioner who wants to ask, but won’t, “Why are you buying kids’ clothes?” It might be kind of fun to keep them wondering...

Dear Family,
I stole this reflection, body and bones, from the Creighton Online Ministries Daily Reflections. Our author is Maureen McCann Waldon, a retired member of the faculty at Creighton. I hope you will appreciate it as much as I did and understand why I’m passing it on. In Jesus,

The greatest among you must be your servant. - Matthew 23:11