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Fr. Vincent Travers story of his visit to the Supermarket appeals to me. He ran out of tea bags. He joined the queue at the check out. Behind him was a woman with half a trolley of items and three restless children. When he presented his single buy a bell rang. The loudspeaker said ‘This is an important announcement. We have just had the thousand customer and whatever food items the customer got will be free. He looked at the woman with the three children, winked and said ‘Aren’t we lucky darling ....he pretended to be her partner. They met outside the shop later and he explained that he was an Irish priest and he thought that God would be pleased with his trick. She replied that she was a single mother, that she had no food in the home and had no money to buy anything. On the way to the Supermarket she prayed ’Jesus help me’ and He did. He sent you. It doesn’t always happen like that but it does happen. Today’s Easter story pin points the wheres and whens that Jesus Resurrected presence touches our lives. It mentions ‘on the road’ when we talk together, when we listen, when we are down hearted, when we use hands to care, hug make friendship and fashion, to praise, to pray, when we use our feet to work, to shop, to play. The very ordinary hides the extraordinary. Isn’t Mass,The Breaking of Bread, like that. The human is drenched in the Divine.
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