Dear Friends,

What a drag it is getting old
"Kids are different today, " I hear every mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill, there's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of her mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day

Mother’s Little Helper sung by Rolling Stones

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Dear Friends,

Can you really play golf every single day? I know some of you will answer an arousing: YES! But after a time, the thrill of the game will decrease, and a certain unsettling routine sets in if not an outright compulsion. We probably think, “when I retire I can golf everyday”. It’s a nice thought but it reveals a lack of preparation for retirement. And a lack of preparation can make our sunny and bright Retirement Utopia of Sun City West turn into a Sun-less maze that we get lost in.

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Dear Friends,

“Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.” (Matt. 13:51) We are fortunate to have both the old and the new as part of our mission for this portion of the Body of Christ in Sun City West and in the Vistancia/N. Peoria area. First the new. Part of our Parish mission at this moment in time is to help start a new parish in the Vistancia/N. Peoria area. For the past two years we have been celebrating Mass in the Gym at Vistancia Elementary School. We have purchased 60 acres of land off the west side of Lake Pleasant Parkway, north of Rt. 303, just below the CAP canal.

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Dear Friends,

We are all used to having numbers and statistics thrown at us in order to describe the magnitude of an issue or a problem. But too often, those numbers are just an abstraction, and we miss the real human cost, the pain and suffering behind the stats. Years ago, I visited Cambodia and though I didn’t want to see them, it’s unavoidable not to notice the “Killing Fields”. You see tens of thousands of bones and lifeless skulls in the Fields. It is very sobering. That the Khmer Rouge killed millions of their fellow countryman is not an abstraction when you see the Killing Fields but a painful eye-opening moment to the reality of evil.

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