6 Sunday A - Spirit of the Law
Thomas O’Loughlin
Introduction to the Celebration
The word ‘religion’ conjures up for most people, and indeed us Christians also, two great images. The first is that system of moral ‘do-s and don’t-s’ — and that we have image is true whether one thinks such rules are a good thing. The second is that there are various religious that have to be followed: like the rule that we have to go on Sundays. But the message of Jesus, brought out in gospel, is that we must go beyond these appearances: our actions must be following but must be inspired love; our religious observances cannot be merely formal must open us to mystery of love that is greater that the univ yet which enters every detail of the creation.
2-year-old still wearing diapers seen on video skateboarding like a pro
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| Kahlei Stone-Kelly skateboarding like a pro |
Einstein - Existence of God - Light
The university
professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything
that exists?
A student bravely replied yes, he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes, sir," the student replied.
The professor
answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil
exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are then
God is evil."
The student became
quiet before such an answer.
The professor was
quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once
more that the Christian faith was a myth.
5 Sunday A - You are the Light/Salt - Homilies
Fr. Bill Grimm's Video Message at the bottom
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LIGHT
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LIGHT
Making decisions in the dark can lead to some regrettable consequences. Back in the days before electricity, a tightfisted old farmer was taking his hired man to task for carrying a lighted lantern when he went to call on his best girl. "Why," he exclaimed, "when I went a-courtin' I never carried one of them things. I always went in the dark." "Yes," the hired man said wryly," and look what you got!"
Source Unknown.
Some people change their ways when they see the light, others only when they feel the heat.
Source Unknown.
SALT
Sodium is an extremely active element found naturally only in combined form; it always links itself to another element. Chlorine, on the other hand, is the poisonous gas that gives bleach its offensive odor. When sodium and chlorine are combined, the result is sodium chloride--common table salt--the substance we use to preserve meat and bring out its flavor. Love and truth can be like sodium and chlorine. Love without truth is flighty, sometimes blind, willing to combine with various doctrines. On the other hand, truth by itself can be offensive, sometimes even poisonous. Spoken without love, it can turn people away from the gospel. When truth and love are combined in an individual or a church, however, then we have what Jesus called "the salt of the earth," and we're able to preserve and bring out the beauty of our faith.
David H. Johnson.
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