21st Sunday of OT C - Discipline
St. Rose of Lima, from catholicsaints.info Readings: http://usccb.org/bible/readings/082519.cfm Discipline – that magical and fearful word. What comes to mind when you first hear that word? Chances are it’s something a bit harsh, whether you’re the one giving or receiving it. Maybe there’s memories you have from childhood of particular ways of discipline that your parents would give you when you did something wrong. Maybe you think of things from school or your workplace – what happens when you either do something intentionally or even just make a mistake. Or maybe we think of grunt-work, that we need to put in a lot of effort to grow. At school this week, I heard a boy telling his angry dad, “I didn’t know there was another side to the homework!” Sometimes it’s those simple mistakes that still require some sort of discipline, to help us be more careful. If these are our memories of “discipline,” why is it that we hear it brought up in our second readin