Stories from Brazil
I am very glad Father Les is back in Saskatoon and at St. Annes Parish. His homilies are always interesting with stories from his mission trips to Brazil. I also kind of apreciate the fact that he finds it hard sometimes being back in Saskatoon after having been away. Today he told a story about a woman in Brazil who stopped him one day. She said to him, "You know what your problem is Father?" and he said his reply was "which one?". She said "you walk too fast" and he argued he had a lot of things to do. She told him sometimes people on the street would like to talk to him and then he said he didn't have time to talk to everyone he saw on the street because he would never get anything done. I really understand that. I feel like I walk too fast and in someways it is a North American thing. I spend a lot of time doing activities, but not a lot of time with people. His message was to pay attention to the prophets around us. Listen to the things people around us are saying, and a prophet can be the person sitting next to you.