6th Sunday After Pentecost 2025

One of my fond and blessed memories of my mother was her uniform response to a birth announcement. And being the oldest of five, and then having two of my sisters have, in one case 12 and in the other 6 children, I witnessed her response on many occasions. And then of course, Leslie and I announced to our parents four times that we were expecting, and with our fourth this came 13 years after our third. And my mom’s response? She would just start laughing as her eyes lit up, and she would share her excitement. She loved babies. Her laughter was different than was Sarah’s in our First Reading, but when it comes to God’s Word, we will see who always gets the last laugh…