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Lent 3 t cetera Continued from page 7 story; and Jesus' story must help us make sense of our own. What makes the Gospel stories so good is that there is always room in them for us. They either tell the stories of people like ourselves or they are open-ended, allowing us to step directly on the scene. •Examples of mis second kind are found Gift shop Continued from page 6 those will be the ones ( that sell.'' Current hot sellers include a bracelet of brightly colored plastic hearts strung on elastic and $1 neck chains with cross pen- dants. \(Patients) seem to enjoy buying things they can use to brighten themselves up,\ Horihan concluded. Buying trends have changed as RPC's population shifts. Since 1982, the number of resident patients has dropped by more than half, from 1,100 to 600, according to Van Holden. \This is part of a state-wide effort to maximize the number of indivi- duals who can grow and live in the com- munity,\ he explained. \Our goal is to try and provide everyone with the opportunity to participate in the community.\ Thus, many of the more able patients who earned extra money by working for programs within the hospital have moved out. \The patients we have left tend not to have as much money ... because they can't work,\ Horihan explained. \They also tend to buy things for their own needs, like 1 S in this year's cycle of readings for the third, fourth and fifth Sundays of Lent. So let me propose a little Lenten meditation procedure: first, pull your Bible off the shelf and slowly read through the Gospel story; second, place yourself in the story as a disciple of Jesus or as one of the charac- ters in the story; third, let your imagination fill out the details of the story and draw you into conversation with what is going on and with Jesus; and fourth, give voice in prayer to what you \have discovered in the story FUNERAL /HOME INC. THE C0LDEN RULE FUNERAL HOME 495 N. Winton Road Rochester, New York 14610 _ Telephone (716) 482-0400 j Advertisement Don't Blame Your Age for Poor Hearing. Chicago, 111. — A free offer of special interest to those who hear but do not understand words has been announced by Beltone. A non-operating mod- el of the smallest hearing aid Beltone has ever developed will be given absolutely free to any- one requesting it. It's yours for the asking, so send for it now. 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Hori- han frequently must fill in gaps that the shop's current corps of 10 volunteers — al- though dedicated — cannot cover. Meanwhile, gift-shop volunteers have recently begun — via cart — taking the shop to patients confined in particular areas of the hospital. \We would like to be open more hours — not so we could make more money, but so we could better serve the patients,\ Saperstone concluded. • • • Anyone interested in volunteering at the RPC's LILAC Friends Gift Shop should contact Lucy Dechaine at Catholic Family Center, 716/546-7220. and how the story will continue in your life. Let's see where this might lead. The Gospel for the third Sunday of (Lent is Luke 13:1-9. People, including oursel- ves, are coming to Jesus with an age-old question. Some of them have been reading the newspaper about earthquakes in Ar- menia, acts of terrorism over Scotland, and dreadful debilitating diseases; others find disasters in their personal lives — a crum- bling marriage, a pregnant teenage daughter, bills stacked to the roof, a! sud- den illness. All. want to know whiether Jesus thinks God is punishing them for their sins with such misfortunes. I Jesus clearly answers \no mat Qod is not punishing them with these natural and human tragedies.^ He strongly urges, however, that we .take them as a warning against a far greater disaster: separation from the saving grace of God. We are war- ned to reform our lives and cooperate with God's nourishing presence in the world. Jesus is the farmer who tends the barren fig tree —ourselves — pruning away what isji useless and nourishing our growth with % God's love and grace. 'k This story opens us onto the future; it isfe unfinished. Will the fig tree bear fruit this | year? Will we reform our lives? 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