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Smoke in This Life — June 21 Solstice • Father’s Day • Eleventh Sunday A mild Connecticut Shade, a steady pour of Knob Creek 12, and the long light of the solstice remind a man what fatherhood truly is — strength that shelters, and shelter that strengthens. Butler’s Lives tells of a woman shown Purgatory and Hell, recognizing faces she had known, and choosing to return to earth so others might reach Heaven first. That is the heart of a father — the refusal to rest while his children are still in danger. And today we remember the old promise of the two lost drops of Christ’s Blood — held in reserve for the most endangered souls, proof that no child is beyond the reach of the Father’s mercy. Reflection Question: Whose soul has God placed in my care, and what strength must I offer so they reach home. JUNE 21 Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Saint Aloysius Gonzaga -Father’s Day-Summer Solstice-Yoga   Matthew, Chapter 10, verse 28 And do not be AFRAID of ...

Smoke in this Life not the Next The Small Fire Half a glass of wine for steadiness. A cheap cigar for honesty. Maria d’Oignies for the flame that purifies. She teaches that holiness is built from small, steady offerings — the kind a man can make in the quiet of his own evening. Let the wine remind you of restraint, the cigar of simplicity, and her life of the fire God can kindle in an ordinary heart. Reflection Question: What small, steady offering is God asking me to place on the fire tonight? June 20 Satur day Third Week after Pentecost Kouign Amann 2 Chronicles, Chapter 19, Verse 9 He gave them this command: “Thus you shall act in the FEAR of the LORD, with fidelity and with an undivided heart. Via the Gospel, the Lord Jesus gives a penetrating analysis of the state of the sinner and some very sobering advice to us would-be saints on maintaining an undivided heart. Delusion, Dissipation, Death [1] We look first to the description of a sinner. Jesus said to his disc...