Sunday 18th July 2010

Sixteenth Sunday of the Year

Readings: Gen 18: 1-10; Col 1:24-28; LK 10:38-42

Hospitality

"We all need a safe 'safe place in a storm'. The house of Martha, Mary and Lazarus at Bethany was such a house for Jesus."

Sundaythoughts.com Martin Tierney

Irish homes have a reputation of hospitality, as a child I would visit my aunts and expected to recieve a cup of tea at each house I went to. I stayed at my aunty mary's house which was located next door to Granny's house.

All the houses in Granny's Street were pulled down and replaced by Dunnes Stores. I think of the Dunnes stores in the Blanchardstown Town Centre as the Dublin branch of granny's house. I can get a cup of tea, here in Dublin as well as in Portadown.