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Gardening, Canning, and "Gleaning"

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  TOMATO GARDEN Our tomato gardening was particularly successful this year. We have 33 quarts of tomatoes. Twenty-one of these are whole tomatoes.  This is a particularly efficient way of canning tomatoes since only the skins and cores are removed. We were delighted that we have very few tomatoes where additional portions of the tomato had to be discarded. The remainder of the tomato quarts are juice; juice is also used as packing for the whole tomatoes.   COLD PACKED TOMATOS We were especially delighted that once we had satisfied our canning needs, we began to deliver tomatoes every weekday to the Saint Gabriel Food Panty. They were in left over boxes from West Market that we had from prior years where we had to buy tomatoes to meet our canning quota. The boxes are designed to carry ten pounds of tomatoes. In filling the boxes, we used only the best- looking blemish free tomatoes.  Our tomatoes are picked just before peak ripening then placed on our sun porch b...

The People of God (Vatican II)

  9. At all times and in every race God has given welcome to whosoever fears Him and does what is right.(85) God, however, does not make men holy and save them merely as individuals, without bond or link between one another. Rather has it pleased Him to bring men together as one people, a people which acknowledges Him in truth and serves Him in holiness. He therefore chose the race of Israel as a people unto Himself. With it He set up a covenant . Step by step He taught and prepared this people, making known in its history both Himself and the decree of His will and making it holy unto Himself. All these things, however, were done by way of preparation and as a figure of that new and perfect covenant, which was to be ratified in Christ, and of that fuller revelation which was to be given through the Word of God Himself made flesh.  "Behold the days shall come saith the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel, and with the house of Judah . . . I will giv...