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Get into the ring! How this works...

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!



Saturday, January 27, 2018

Jan 28 Homily Prep

-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at www.usccb.org
-check out this week's LinC Letter on the back of the parish bulletin or at www.saint-albert.org/lincletter
-I will be celebrating mass on Sunday at St. Albert at 8:00am and 9:30am and at the Cathedral at 12:15pm with our Confirmation candidates

Walking the Talk

Being a prophet is literally to “speak on behalf of”. Moses, the prophet, is referring in our first reading to his assistant Joshua as the one who will be raised up as another " speaker on behalf of God”.  In recognition of the one who is the prophet in our midst, who speaks on behalf of God, is to recognize that we have been visited by God. God is in our midst.

Jesus in the gospel is recognized as “the holy one of God” not only by his “speaking on behalf of God” (as one with authority) but also by his healing. Speaking on behalf of God or being a prophet is to “manifest“ the presence of God in our midst. So that there is such a thing as prophetic living.  So we might take the  popular phrase of “talk the talk and walk the walk“ and restate it prophetically "walking the talk."

 How might we walk and talk or walk the talk in our daily lives so that others might recognize that God has raised up a prophet in the world and thereby conclude that God has visited his people?