“And the King will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as your did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.”

 In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

          During my 25 years with the Maryland State Police I worked several different assignments. My assignments placed me at State Police Barracks over the state as I was promoted up through the ranks to Sergeant. My last 6 years prior to my retirement in 2004, I served as a Sergeant in the State Police. Continued

“For it will be as when a man going on a journey called his servants… to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability.”  Matthew 25:14In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

“How hard can it really be?,” I thought to myself.  I had a large mound of mulberries on my kitchen counter, a plastic bucket, a sack of sugar and a big glass jar, and I was ready to begin my first try at home winemaking. Continued

 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”  St. Matthew 5:8

 In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

Most of my fellow pilgrims on the long walk to Compostela didn’t quite know what to make of Robert.  He was a Jesuit priest, but he wouldn’t let any of us call him Father.  He was brilliant.  He spoke at least four languages and seemed to have read a little bit of everything, but he had spent his whole life working among the illiterate and poor.  Continued