Homily from last Sunday is available at the Estok Homily Library>>>>>>
This Sunday's readings are available at usccb.org "daily reading" >>>>>>
I will be presiding and preaching at the 11:00am Mass on Sunday 3/21.
Something New!
The warning of the prophet that "God is doing something new" is less of a warning and more of a hopeful promise. This promise feeds into my Lenten theme of conversion. Recall we are invited to make a re-turn to the Lord but our destination (deeper reconciliation in communion with God and neighbor) is not some place where we have been before. It sounds a bit like Alice in Wonderland but we are called back to a place we've never been before!
St Paul speaks eloquently of the state of those called to a converted life in Christ....not that he is living it perfectly but he is fixed on the new destination. He is turning away from what was and he is moving toward the new thing before him.
Have we accepted the liberation from what was, what never was and committed to what can be with God?
