Went to eight o’clock Mass with Our Catherine as usual this morning. We talked a lot about our fishing expedition as we drove which is happening after lunch but first church. And today’s gospel reading was from the Book of James as in Our Saint James’ book.

I took some notes from Father’s homily so I could give you the scoop. So, Father is pounding on on the pulpit, no that’s a joke, for he is the most mild mannered dude on the planet. His speech is a sort of poetry. It doesn’t have rhyme but it really has rhythm. Sort of a mild mannered rap, he’s black.

Here what he had to say about the spirit of St James’ message written two thousand years ago. “To have faith is to do faith – noun flowing into verb.” St James message is that we are the hands and feet of God. “Making visible, making tangible”. We make God visible and tangible by our actions in the here and now. Yup.

So true to form Felipe is fixing stuff as the Padre is speaking. I had a malfunction with my rosary and I got my Leatherman out when fingernails and teeth don’t do it trying to get the links in the chain refastened. Read up about PFJ’s comment about fixing things yesterday. You and the Padre are so right on PFJ. So yea, we fix stuff a lot and make God happen that way mostly and grow corn of course.

Yup, I have to go dig up a useable fishing rod from some dusty corner. The silver salmon are coming in the Sound now and some swimming by the shore not a half mile from here at this minute. OK, that’s it for today, gone fishing, love, Felipe.