Making Music

If indeed the words of poet Wendell Berry are true, "The impeded stream is the one that sings," then the three people we celebrate today, St. Joseph the Worker, Mary our Good Mother, and Brother Florentius, founder of Mt. St. Michael Academy and Central Catholic High School, could create vocal symphony.  We all love a gurgling book, where stones and other obstacles to the flow of the stream create the sounds that never tire us, but without which, the waters would simply and quietly flow to their destination, causing not a stir in the woods nor in us.  This trio had multiple stones in their waters, faced endless obstacles which brought two to official sanctity and the third, two schools which attest to his faith, courage, and dogged determination not to let health nor lack of money stop him.  As we stop and look at our own lives, we see not unimpeded waters. These three saints sing to us, lift our spirits, and encourage us not to curse the stones, but to rejoice in them, for without them, how dull would our lives be.
Bro. Rene