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15th Sunday B: Called and Sent out
Introduction to the Celebration
We assemble as a people who have been called to be bearers of God’s love to all humanity.
We assemble as a people who have been called to be bearers of God’s love to all humanity.
God doesn't Change
God is
God:
🏽He doesnt care about *age*, no wonder he blessed Abraham.
🏽He
doesnt care about *experience*, no wonder he chose David.
🏽He doesnt care
about *gender,* no wonder he lifted Esther.
🏽He doesnt care about *your
past*, no wonder he called Paul.
🏽He doesnt care about *your physical
appearance*, no wonder he chose Zacchaeus
(the shortest one).
14 Sunday C: The Kingdom of God is Near: Go
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Michel de VerteuilGeneral Textual Comments
In order to make a fruitful meditation on this passage, we must set ourselves some guidelines.
3 Sunday B - Come, follow me
Third Sunday B: Homilies and Stories
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Thomas O’Loughlin
Introduction to the Celebration
During this coming year we are going to read our way through the gospel preached by St Mark. And today we hear about Jesus’s first actions in inaugurating the kingdom of God. He proclaimed the good news that we should repent and begin life afresh; and he gathered about him the first members of his new people.
Here, now, today, we are gathering as that new people, gathering around him and listening to him in the Liturgy of the Word; and then with him we are going to offer thanks to our heavenly Father in the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
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Thomas O’Loughlin
Introduction to the Celebration
During this coming year we are going to read our way through the gospel preached by St Mark. And today we hear about Jesus’s first actions in inaugurating the kingdom of God. He proclaimed the good news that we should repent and begin life afresh; and he gathered about him the first members of his new people.
Here, now, today, we are gathering as that new people, gathering around him and listening to him in the Liturgy of the Word; and then with him we are going to offer thanks to our heavenly Father in the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
2 Sunday B - Come and See - Homilies
Tony Kayala, c.s.c.
As much as Jesus had to leave Nazareth (home and comfort, familiarity and family) to come to the Jordan (last Sunday) to be baptized, the disciples too have got to "leave" in order to "come" (No arrival without a departure). We are used to checking out a product before buying or a person before hiring or we "see" and choose (come). We check it out before stepping out. Abraham and other prophets have to leave for an uncertain task and territory; Abraham must first accept to sacrifice his only son, then he will see God's plan. He didn't doubt in God's promise of progenies like the sands and the stars even though the only son was going to be sacrificed! Joseph had to first accept Mary pregnant as she was and then he will see God's plan. Come so that you may see. Step in, walk in, follow me, leave behind ....so that you may see plans, actions, results for you. "Come" is an invitation and "see" is the promise. You can trust the Lord for his promises.
Then the uncertain, doubtful, denying Simons will have to become Cephases and solid rocks on which the Lord can build his Church.
3 Sunday A - Reign of God - Come, Follow Me!
Fr. Bill Grimm:
From The Connections:
‘My Monastery Is a Minivan’
When asked our religion, most of us would describe ourselves as “Catholic” or “Christian.” But we would tend to back away from daring to call ourselves “disciple” or “follower.” That description rightly belongs to the great heroes of our faith: the apostles and holy men and women of the Gospel, the saints and martyrs, the Francises of Assisi, the Mother Teresas, the Thomas Mertons, the Dorothy Days, the Albert Schweitzers. Our lives are too ordinary, our professions too worldly to dare imagine that we are doing the work of the Gospel Jesus.
From The Connections:
‘My Monastery Is a Minivan’
When asked our religion, most of us would describe ourselves as “Catholic” or “Christian.” But we would tend to back away from daring to call ourselves “disciple” or “follower.” That description rightly belongs to the great heroes of our faith: the apostles and holy men and women of the Gospel, the saints and martyrs, the Francises of Assisi, the Mother Teresas, the Thomas Mertons, the Dorothy Days, the Albert Schweitzers. Our lives are too ordinary, our professions too worldly to dare imagine that we are doing the work of the Gospel Jesus.
13 Sunday C - Call and Radicality - Homilies
Lk 9:51-62
Thomas O’Loughlin
Introduction to the Celebration
Thomas O’Loughlin
Introduction to the Celebration
Coming together week after week we can forget that we have each made a decision to follow Jesus and to make the growth of his kingdom our goal in life. But we get distracted, we lose focus, we get tired, and we even get lost from time to time. Now as we gather around the Lord at his table we ask the Lord to refocus us on what is truly important and to give us the food to sustain us on our pilgrimage of life.
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Gospel Notes
This gospel is made up of several elements. The first element is the story of the Samaritan villagers who show hostility to this group of Galileans passing through their territory on the way to worship in Jerusalem. The very fact of passing through that area was tantamount to saying that the only place for ‘[true] Jews’ (because the Samaritans also claimed the name ‘Jew’) to worship is in the temple in Jerusalem, and implicitly to assert that their cult in their temple was a false one. Jesus, by rebuking the disciples who want to call in an air strike, shows himself to be living by his own command to love one’s enemies.
Call and Excuses
Call of God and Excuses
| When God Sends People...They Make Excuses: Abraham was too old. Moses stuttered. Miriam was a gossip. Jacob was a liar. Gideon doubted. Elijah was burned out. First David's armor didn't fit, then he had an affair, and had someone killed. Solomon was too rich. Isaiah had unclean lips. Jeremiah was too young. Jonah didn't like the job. Amos's only training was in the school of fig-tree pruning. Naomi was a widow. Peter was afraid of death. Thomas was from Paul was a murderer. Mark was rejected by Paul. Timothy had ulcers. Lazarus was dead. Martha was a worry-wart. ...or so they claimed, before God's Spirit empowered them to rise to the occasion and become some of the greatest heroes of our faith. ------- Another shorter version: |
Bamboo Seeds and Faith
Bamboo Seeds
The Power of the Seed Theme: Faith is a powerful seed.
One of the strangest seeds in the world is the seed of the Chinese bamboo tree. It lies buried in the soil for five years before any seedling or sprout appears above ground. Think of it! Five years! All during these five years the seed must be cultivated, that is, watered and fertilized regularly. Now comes the big surprise.
When the bamboo seedling finally emerges from the ground, it grows to a height of nine feet in just six weeks. Why does the seedling take so long to emerge? Why does it grow so fast once it emerges? Plant experts say that during its first five years in the soil the bamboo seed is busy building an elaborate root system. It's this root system that enables it to grow nine feet in six weeks.
Application: Does our faith have deep roots? How can we know? What is our root system that nourishes us spiritually every day?
He qualifies the called
Jacob was a cheater, Peter had a temper, David had an affair, Noah got drunk, Jonah ran away from God ,Paul was a murderer, Gideon was insecure, Miriam was gossiper, Martha was a nerve wreck, Thomas was a doubter, Sarah was impatient, Elijah was depressed, Moses stuttered, Zaccheus was short, Abraham was old and Lazarus was dead. God does not call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
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