Day: July 1, 2019

June 27, 2019 – Summer Sandwich Fun!

Our Lady of the Desert’s “sandwich making team” celebrated its 13th consecutive month making sandwiches for Tucson’s Casa Maria Food Kitchen by – what else – making more sandwiches!*

They not only made 600+ sandwiches to help feed Tucson’s homeless at Casa Maria, but hundreds more for asylum-seeking families staying at the former Benedictine Monastery (operated as a shelter by Catholic Community Services). 

Congratulations on a wonderful year of service!

* Special thanks to Geralyn Neely for providing the pictures.

Desert Reflections: The real event

Fr Ted believes that today’s first reading tells us more about Abraham than it does about God.  But Abraham did start us down the path to understanding that God cares about and loves us all. 1700 years later, Jesus, Abraham’s descendent and God’s own son, would lay down his life for us all – whether we are righteous or not.

Today’s Readings

Then Abraham drew nearer to [the Lord] and said: “Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty? Suppose there were fifty innocent people in [Sodom]; would you wipe out the place, rather than spare it?
GN 18:16-33

“Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.”
MT 8:18-22