Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time: Mark 9:41-50
Feast of St. Polycarp
“Jesus said to his disciples: “Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.” Mark 9:41
I admit it.
I have been on a Mary Poppins kick since I discovered that quote with which I opened my last post. Even though I saw many Disney movies as a child, I had never seen Mary Poppins. As a child, my special interests were so focused that, unless a movie appeared to offer me at least one of them, I wasn’t interested. Doctor Doolittle passed muster for me then – the Rex Harrison film – with all those animals he talked to. Apparently, Mary Poppins didn’t pass (in spite of the penguins, horses, fox and hounds, and dog). Continue reading “Feed the Birds”