I find the last words of today’s gospel to be pretty harsh. Jesus uses the example of a slave coming in from the fields after a long hard day of work. He asks his disciples if any of them would say to this slave ‘rest your weary bones and put your feet up, I your master will fix you your supper’? That’s not the way it works. It’s the slave’s job to prepare his masters supper and then eat his own. He is due nothing for the service he gives his master, it’s his job. (more…)
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Homily – October 3
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010Homily – September 26
Sunday, September 26th, 2010I was thinking, we’re having a rash of second collections lately. This week for the needs of the Canadian Church, then there will be World Mission Sunday and then a collection to help in our efforts to sponsor a family from Iraq and I’m sure there will be more.
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Homily – September 12
Sunday, September 12th, 2010Has this ever happened in your family? There has been a falling out. Something was said, someone was neglected, someone was slighted, misunderstood, misquoted and a rift developed in the family. On big family occasions, Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays or wedding anniversaries someone is always missing. The family is incomplete. No one knows how to set things right. Then the time comes when people re-connect, hurts are healed, bygones become bygones and things are good. Peace reigns in the valley. (more…)
Homily – September 5
Sunday, September 5th, 2010There is a TV program titled “Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ I watched it once and that was enough. I think today’s harsh gospel could be titled ‘curb your enthusiasm.’ (more…)
Homily – August 29
Sunday, August 29th, 2010Meals are a very important part of all our lives. We enjoy Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving dinners and birthday parties and wedding anniversaries. We break the monotony of daily living by ‘going out for a meal.’ I guess this has always been so. In the time of Jesus meals were an occasion to affirm and give legitimacy to a person’s role and status in a given community. The same is true today. Imagine how some people would give anything to be invited to a meal at the White House or Buckingham Palace. I was going to say 24 Sussex but I don’t think so. (more…)
Founded by St. Paul of the Cross, every Passionist takes a special vow to spend his or her energies in promoting remembrance of the sufferings of Jesus, the memory of the Cross, and reflection of the meaning of the Cross for the world.
