What Did You Hear In Today's Homily

[Era Might]

I'm curious what your priest preached on today's readings, in particular the epistle reading:

[quote]I tell you, brothers and sisters, the time is running out.
From now on, let those having wives act as not having them,
those weeping as not weeping,
those rejoicing as not rejoicing,
those buying as not owning,
those using the world as not using it fully.
For the world in its present form is passing away.[/quote]
Here's what I got: the priest making a brief announcement to married people to ignore St. Paul's advice about married people living as though not married, because St. Paul thought the world was going to end during his lifetime and he was mistaken. Then we got a 10 minute video projection of the bishop asking for money for some charitable drive, and then another 10 minutes of instructions on how to fill out the donation form.

I was annoyed, to say the least, more so by the priest's comment. Maybe he was half joking...but still, this is a profound reading from St. Paul, as important to us as it was to the Corinthians St. Paul wrote to, and we got nothing but a comment to ignore what he said. Oh, and at the end of Mass we got a reminder to enjoy today's football games. Talk about missing the point of St. Paul's reading.

Anyway, I didn't start this thread so much to rant as to see if anyone actually got a homily, and what you heard.

Edited January 22, 2012 by Era Might

[vee]

sorry your homily sucked. My priest, when covering that reading, asked the congregation "do you put your spouse before God?" and explained that we cannot even put family before God because when they are gone then what? All things are passing, our homes, our possesions and yes even our loved ones, so we must always keep God first.

I understand your frustration though and can only suggest praying very much for your priests espeically that the holy spirit guide them.

[vee]

Also to add, my priest went on to talk about confession and repentance, and how we are to have reverance for the Eucharist and to prepare ourselves by going to Confession etc.

[Clare~Therese]

The homily I heard was that we need to change and be "in the world but not of it," to repent, etc.

[bernadette d]

The homily I heard is on "The Word.Werd"

[LaPetiteSoeur]

Ours was about centering our life on God. A "Coperican revolution" of sorts. Instead of everything being about us, we have to recenter our life around Christ. There was an example used that dealt with the Islamic tradition of the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Thankfully, we have very, very good priests at my school. One actually went to my school before he was ordained!

[beatitude]

The homily I heard was short but good. Father said that he thought all the readings were about going beyond ourselves and all the things we had previously taken for granted. Jonah had to go and preach in a foreign city, to people with whom he felt no affinity; those people had to surrender their way of life in order to welcome a God they could barely conceive of. The disciples had to abandon the simple comforts and reassurance provided by their fishing nets and their village in order to follow Jesus, even though they had no idea where he was going. Paul advises us to do the same, as the things that seem permanent are actually very fleeting. This doesn't mean that our marriages and joys and sorrows don't matter, just that we mustn't try to stand on them, only on the bedrock underneath.

[homeschoolmom]

Our priest focused mostly on Jonah. He shared his own vocation story and how he was like Jonah. He did tie in the "The Kingdom of God is at Hand" theme, too. It was actually quite long and very good.

[BG45]

This probably makes me a bad Catholic, but I forget most of the homily because this little kid in front of me kept pointing to the Crucifix and pronouncing that it was scary.

I know Father said something about not being anxious and following God's call for your life; that we are to place Him first and other things second. And that if anyone was willing to help welcome the students back on Monday by handing out fruit, granola, bottled water, etc. on the sidewalk to see him after Mass.

[Maximilianus]

Ours covered Jonah too and how God asks of us to do seemingly impossible things that make us want to run away.

[the_rev]

I could share the reflection I wrote for our seminarian prayer group, it was my week to reflect on the weekends readings.

I reflected on the call of Jonah and the call of the apostles and the apostles staked their whole lives on the early preaching of Jesus, to repent and believe in the gospel. I further reflected on that if we are to respond to the Lord's invitation in our own lives we must be willing to repent ourselves, and be effected by conversion of heart before we can do that for others.

Edited January 22, 2012 by the_rev

[Socrates]

I heard an excellent, impassioned sermon on the evils of contraception, and its universal acceptance by Protestants, as well as many "Catholics" who do not heed the Church, and against the legislation the Obama administration is pushing to require that Catholic organizations have insurance covering contraception and abortion, and how Catholics will face persecution for practicing and preaching their beliefs in this country.

I love the FSSP.

[dominicansoul]

my homily was in Spanish, so I didn't understand a danged thing....

[Ice_nine]

My priest gave a wonderful homily about how all lives are meaningful. He spoke of a prayer service that goes on every year for families who have lost children either before birth or shortly ever, and how despite those very brief lives their impact was evident in their loved ones, and since they had increased others' capacity for love, they have lived very full lives.

He then used Jonah to talk about how we feel that some segments of people don't deserve life (like the Ninevites (sp?)) whether it's the unborn, the infirm, the handicapped, criminals, racial groups etc. He discussed a little bit about the walk for life and the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. And, you guys would probably love this, he warned that we need to be very careful of who we put into office, citing the new ruling that health care providers must provide sterilization and contraception, how it is an infringement on religious freedom and we can be certain to lose more freedoms if we stay on this course.

My priest is dope y'all.

[Theologian in Training]

This was what I preached http://lordifyouwill.blogspot.com/2012/01/3rd-sunday-in-ordinary-time-cycle-b.html