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If you had grown up in our Finnegan Catholic Household, you would have had a rosary and learned to say it.  All 9 of us kids had one and they were prominent in May when we’d say the rosary at our homemade May altar.  And if we couldn’t sleep, we’d go downstairs hoping to stay…

To borrow a title from Charles Dickens, our Gospel passage today could easily be referred to as “A Tale of Two Cities”.  One city was Samaria, the other Jerusalem. Both were cities in Israel, but there was deep religious hatred between them because the Jews in Samaria had intermarried with those non-Jews who had conquered…