Homily: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This weekend’s Gospel brings to a close a 3-part story that we have been listening to these past weeks focused on discipleship, evangelization...and rest. But when Jesus takes his disciples off to a deserted place, he finds that many of the followers have taken a short cut on land and have arrived at his destination before him.  So, what to do? How to respond? And what does this Gospel show us about the importance of downtime?  Maybe some wisdom from Ron Rolheiser, John of the Cross and my dad may bring some light to all of this!  Check it out…