I think Jesus would understand about vacations.  St. Mark gives us this interesting little parenthesis in the life of our Lord.  He says that Jesus knew the disciples’ need for rest.  He knew that we cannot be everlastingly at it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.  Jesus knew that, and so, immediately after He sent forth His disciples on that first evangelistic mission, (a mission which was crowned with success); we read that “The apostles returned to Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught.” (6:30) But as result of their doing and teaching, the crowds pressed in on them so closely that “they had no leisure even to eat.” (Mark 6:312) (And we thought that we invented the overcrowded schedule!) So Jesus said to them:

I.  “COME AWAY BY YOURSELVES TO A LONELY PLACE,…