Happy Father's Day

Mission Appeal and Fathers Day
My dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ,
I am Fr Sunny John, a Carmelite priest from India. I am coming from a country where there are more than 1.1billion people and there are 23 official languages. India is a federal republic of twenty-eight states and seven Union Territories. You May not fully understand me, you know why, because English is not my language.
Do you remember in this Fathers’ day weekend the 1974 rock song by Harry Chapin “Cat's in the Cradle”?
The song is told in first person, and relates the story of a father who is too busy to spend time with his son. Though the son repeatedly asks him to join in childhood activities, the father always responds with little more than vague promises of future quality time, which is peppered with images from nursery rhymes. While the son grows up loving and admiring his father, he picks up his father's habit of putting family on the backburner.
Years pass and the lonely, aging father, who is now retired and free from the constraints of work, desires yet again to spend time with his son, who by this time is a family man himself. Hoping to make up for lost time, the father reaches out to him again. The son however has his own life and family to worry about; he warmly responds that he is now too busy with his own work and family to spend time with (or even talk to) his father. Like his father once had, the son promises that someday in the future they will spend time together. The last verses end with the lines "I'd love to dad if I could find the time/You see my new job's a hassle and the kids have the flu/But it's sure nice talking to you, dad … And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me/He'd grown up just like me/My boy was just like me …". The father realizes that his son is now giving him vague promises like he once did to his son. The last line also says that the son's prediction about growing up to be like his father came true, although not in a way the father would have liked, and that the recurring lines of "we will get together then...we are going to have a good time then" are purely imaginary. I don’t think I need to tell you more in this Father’s day to examine ourselves.
A father was watching his young son trying to dislodge a heavy stone. The boy couldn't budge it. "Are you sure you are using all your strength?" the father asked. "Yes, I am," said the exasperated boy. "No, you are not," the father replied. "You haven't asked me to help you."
Yes dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, that is why I am here today to ask your help for the Carmelite missions all over the world.
As John Lennon said: Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
We are called to be missionaries going out to the whole world and spreading the good news. We can never help anyone in this world when we are fully equipped or wealthy. Have you ever satisfied with what you have my dear brothers and sisters? If you say yes, then you are saying lies. God is asking to show our love towards others. By the fact we are helping the people who help the people we are becoming part of that universal mission of Christ. There are millions of people who have nothing to eat a day. Whatever you wanted to do for the people in the third world countries you need financial help, if you want to teach them you have to provide food clothing and transportation.
God is not asking us to be a mother Theresa but he is giving you and me a chance to do what we can do to help at least one family or a person to lead a life worthy of human being.
There is nothing big or nothing small in giving, even a small sacrifice you make today for the Missions in the world will prayerfully be remembered by someone who is in utter need of your help.
One evening a mother and a child were coming back home after a long evening walk and on the way they got into a restaurant and picked up their dinner package. While they were walking this little child saw a poor man in the nearby waste barrel searching for his daily food. This child remembered the catechism class where she learned about the loving God. She hold tightly on her mothers’ arm and asked Mammy, mammy let me ask you a question. Is God alive, yes, is our God is a good and loving God? Yes. Mammy my teacher told me today Our God is a good and loving God and wherever you are in need you pray to God and God will send angels to help you. Is it True Mom? Yes indeed. If that is right why didn’t God send and angel to help this poor man to find a meal a Day?
Wow that is a real aching question. Mammy just paused a moment. And said “honey, who told you that God did not send an angel today. He did send you. Take our dinner packet and go and give it to that poor man and be an Angel of God Today. Yes dear brothers and sisters. By helping the Mission you are becoming an angel of God for someone.
I thank most sincerely Bishop Howard Hubbard and your loving and caring Pastor Fr David Mickiewicz and all parishioners of St Casimir St. Stanislaus and St John the Baptist Church for your love and support. I humbly ask our Loving Father to bless all the fathers here. Heavenly Father Bless them with peace and joy as we honor them all the days of their life. May they, like the men in the scriptures and Joseph, the foster Father of Jesus, be just and true. Dear friends; Write your name in the hearts of people you meet that is where it will stay .Not on sand waves wash it away; Not in the sky wind blows it away.
Thank you so much for your love and help, I assure my prayers for you and Please keep the missionaries and their activities in your day to day prayers and be part of the mission duties of our Faith life.