This is easy! Each week on Thursday I post my homily idea...my main focus for preaching this coming Sunday. What I am hoping for is a reaction from people in the pews. Does my "focus" connect with your daily life, faith, and experience? Or not? Either affirm the direction I am going in (by giving me an example from your life) or challenge me, ask for clarification! Questions are the best! Reaction rather than reflection is what I'm looking for here. Don't be afraid, get in the ring. Ole!
Thursday, September 1, 2011
September 4th Homily Preparation Video
-The homily video from August 28th (kind of ) is below
-The scriptures are at usccb.org >
-I am presiding at the 5:30pm Saturday and the 8:00am Sunday Masses
4 comments:
Faith
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I never tire of hearing, and being reminded, of “communion” in our lives. Wasn’t it St. Thomas Aquinas, a student of St. Albert’s, who said “to be is to be related”? Being in relationship with God and one another is the essence of who we are but so often in our fight for survival we forget that. I liked the Matador’s connection with Labor Day: it does seem fitting on this Labor Day Weekend to consider the “work” of all this in our lives. It is indeed hard work, to follow Jesus and to love as he loved, but it is for what we are made!
Oh my gosh, oh wow, I’ve had such an “epiphany” . . . prior to listening to this I was talking to a friend and she was talking about stuff (problems & difficulties) in her parish between the school and the staff… and the conversation was so bothersome I wanted to scream cuz this has been going on seemingly since the beginning of time. . . . in EVERY Parish . . . each had their own “side”, they each wanted it their own way, and there is always some division . . . . parents versus faculty, PSR versus dayschool, AND THEN I REALIZED… unity is ALWAYS about Jesus and His Church. . . Jesus is one with the Father & the Holy Spirit and Jesus and the Church are ONE . . . . Jesus is never about Himself . . . it’s not about MY relationship with Jesus, it’s
how MY RELATIONSHIP w/JESUS affects the way I live and love and give to OTHERS . . .
. . oh my gosh!!!
To heck with how I pray or how Jesus speaks to me or how good I feel (or don’t feel) about prayer and His Presence. I just realized it!!! FURTHER, community is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS about unity . . . it is not a true community unless there is unity (my grandmother would say, work together, get along!) . . . .
ALSO . . . true community then is about making EVERYONE community, whether they are at St. Albert’s or not . . . if I can’t greet my next-door neighbor, I do not have a community/united heart with Jesus and His Church WHICH ARE ONE!!!
ALSO . . . . it is better to do something small together than to accomplish a GREAT task and a bang-up job each on his own.
Yes, as Father said . . . we ARE responsible to each other and for each other . . . we ought to work with each other, not cast each other aside . . . our self-centered opinions have to be set aside . . . Love is patient... Love bears all things . . .
God is saving us as a “people” and not cuz I’m doing such a bang-up job of it. W O W ! ! !
If we think about it, we as a Catholic Church have been taught to live in community-in peace and harmony with one another, but sadly we seldom 'think'. We are more prone to act first, and think second. In our humanness,we tend to bicker amongst ourselves causing decension rather than unity. That being said, I dont think the homilist could ever overstate or too often preach the concept of community and living together in humble acceptance of each other-warts and all. We must also realize that community is not just this local parish, but those of all faiths that we must not bash because they have don't have things exactly right. We should be the shining example on the hill that is a beacon for all and extend them grace as Christ would have
All of your comments are very beautiful. However, I have to add a sad note. I have been a parishioner at St. Albert for about a little over 2 years... I do not feel that sense of community that I was looking for when I transfer to St. Albert and I have been trying believe me. Yes, we must love each other and be attentive to each other, not only in good times, but when we sense that the other person needs some assistance or a little bit of extra love.
4 comments:
I never tire of hearing, and being reminded, of “communion” in our lives. Wasn’t it St. Thomas Aquinas, a student of St. Albert’s, who said “to be is to be related”? Being in relationship with God and one another is the essence of who we are but so often in our fight for survival we forget that. I liked the Matador’s connection with Labor Day: it does seem fitting on this Labor Day Weekend to consider the “work” of all this in our lives. It is indeed hard work, to follow Jesus and to love as he loved, but it is for what we are made!
Oh my gosh, oh wow, I’ve had such an “epiphany” . . . prior to listening to this I was talking to a friend and she was talking about stuff (problems & difficulties) in her parish between the school and the staff… and the conversation was so bothersome I wanted to scream cuz this has been going on seemingly since the beginning of time. . . . in EVERY Parish . . . each had their own “side”, they each wanted it their own way, and there is always some division . . . . parents versus faculty, PSR versus dayschool, AND THEN I REALIZED… unity is ALWAYS about Jesus and His Church. . . Jesus is one with the Father & the Holy Spirit and Jesus and the Church are ONE . . . . Jesus is never about Himself . . . it’s not about MY relationship with Jesus, it’s
how MY RELATIONSHIP w/JESUS affects the way I live and love and give to OTHERS . . .
. . oh my gosh!!!
To heck with how I pray or how Jesus speaks to me or how good I feel (or don’t feel) about prayer and His Presence. I just realized it!!! FURTHER, community is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS about unity . . . it is not a true community unless there is unity (my grandmother would say, work together, get along!) . . . .
ALSO . . . true community then is about making EVERYONE community, whether they are at St. Albert’s or not . . . if I can’t greet my next-door neighbor, I do not have a community/united heart with Jesus and His Church WHICH ARE ONE!!!
ALSO . . . . it is better to do something small together than to accomplish a GREAT task and a bang-up job each on his own.
Yes, as Father said . . . we ARE responsible to each other and for each other . . . we ought to work with each other, not cast each other aside . . . our self-centered opinions have to be set aside . . . Love is patient... Love bears all things . . .
God is saving us as a “people” and not cuz I’m doing such a bang-up job of it. W O W ! ! !
If we think about it, we as a Catholic Church have been taught to live in community-in peace and harmony with one another, but sadly we seldom 'think'. We are more prone to act first, and think second. In our humanness,we tend to bicker amongst ourselves causing decension rather than unity. That being said, I dont think the homilist could ever overstate or too often preach the concept of community and living together in humble acceptance of each other-warts and all. We must also realize that community is not just this local parish, but those of all faiths that we must not bash because they have don't have things exactly right. We should be the shining example on the hill that is a beacon for all and extend them grace as Christ would have
All of your comments are very beautiful. However, I have to add a sad note. I have been a parishioner at St. Albert for about a little over 2 years... I do not feel that sense of community that I was looking for when I transfer to St. Albert and I have been trying believe me.
Yes, we must love each other and be attentive to each other, not only in good times, but
when we sense that the other person needs some assistance or a little bit of extra love.
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