June 1 Our Lady of the Star St. Justin Martyr Today’s Gospel: Mark 12:1-12 A man planted a vineyard. Built a wall around it. Dug a winepress. Put up a watchtower. Then he handed it all to some tenants and left. When he sent someone to collect the fruit his vineyard had produced, they beat the messenger and sent him away empty. Jesus told this story, and everyone listening knew exactly what it meant. God gives. We receive. And then comes the question that never goes away: What did you do with it? Justin Martyr knew his answer. He took the sharpest mind of his generation, a gift if there ever was one, and spent every last bit of it defending the Faith. They beheaded him for it. He never asked for his gift back. I don't have a philosopher's mind, and I never claimed to. What I do have, I try to give away. That's the whole strategy, plain and simple. Whatever flows in flows right back out, to the Rosary Makers Ministry, to others, and basically to whoever ne...