What Did You Hear In Today's Homily

[brandelynmarie]

[quote name='Maximilianus' timestamp='1327270777' post='2373403']
Ours covered Jonah too and how God asks of us to do seemingly impossible things that make us want to run away.
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Sounds really familiar.

[MissScripture]

I honestly don't remember a ton from the homily, but with that reading, from what I remember, Father focused more on the part about the world passing away and used it to transition into Roe V. Wade, where he talked about how we need to pray for everyone involved in abortions, and we don't have the ability to judge the women who get abortions, but they need to know even though it was a terrible choice, God still loves them and offers his forgiveness, but no one has the right to take a life, and the Church has taught that abortion is wrong since the beginning. He got really emotional and it made me start crying, so I don't remember anything else about it.

[Seven77]

Sunday's homily was about revolution. Here's a summary:

Father began by referring to the Greek word for good news, evangelion. We have good news: God became man to give hope to humanity, to forgive sin and cure the sick, to give purpose to the despairing, and even to rob death of its power. The apostles saw all the miracles of Jesus and rejoiced because they believed they would be able to work the same miracles as a result of following him. Eventually, the apostles were sent out to the ends of the earth as his emissaries (my word), spreading the good news of hope: restoration of life.

It should be noted, the word evangelion predates Christianity: the Roman Emperor referred to himself as a god and son of a god (Julius Caesar) and announced the “good news” of military victories and conquests of new territories. These conquests resulted in destruction and subjection unto despair. The “good news” of Caesar was news heralding death.

As the good news about the true God, the real Son of God spread throughout the Roman Empire, every facet of life was infiltrated (my word) by a Christian, a messenger of the good news of the kingdom of God. For instance, St. Sebastian was a bodyguard of the emperor himself. Each and every one of us is called to be an emissary of Christ, of his love, spreading hope everywhere we are: this is essentially the mission of the New Evangelization.

There is much to be hopeful about and nothing to fear because Christ conquered death. While it is not theologically accurate to say that “the world is going to hell in a handbasket,” the world in the direst need of hope. Announcing the good news is getting increasingly difficult. Think of the new HHS mandate requiring Catholic institutions other than parishes, to cover contraception and sterilization under insurance plans for employees. It was the Catholic Church that essentially invented hospitals with the intention of caring for the sick and bringing them to health and now the government wants Catholics to go against conscience. Catholics must speak out against these injustices that have to do with the good news of Caesar and of not Christ.

We have a mission to start social revolutions with the message of good news of life and love and defeat the bad news of Caesar.

[Winchester]

I think misinterpretation of this reading could explain Newt Gingrich's approach to marriage.

[dUSt]

Sunday's homily was almost completely about abortion. He talked about how abortion should never be an option, under any circumstance. He scolded those who are against abortion "except in cases of...". He even got into the evils of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, and her agenda of eugenics, etc.

It was dope.

[bernadette d]

This is a small part of what I heard.................and all of it is on The Word.Werd

[size=5][font=Calibri]In Jesus’ Good News, and Mother Church’s proclamation, God is Love and He is Life; to listen to Him is to hear Truth and to obey Him is to practice Wisdom; to look at Him is to see Beauty, to trust in Him is to have Strength; while to experience His hidden presence is to find peace and taste beatitude. ‘Repent’ means: turn to God and prepare yourselves to receive these gifts from Him; stop seeking to promote your own interests of prestige, power, or pleasure; stop turning to and trusting in men who, like yourself, are fragile creatures of flesh and blood, by nature inconstant. As Our Lord Himself puts it:[/font]

[b][i][font=Calibri]Do not labour for food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life.[/font][/i][/b][/size]

[i<3LSOP]

[quote name='dominicansoul' timestamp='1327281504' post='2373546']
my homily was in Spanish, so I didn't understand a danged thing....
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Aw, shucks I could have translated for you.