Homily from the Solemnity of Christ the King.
"Think about the lengths to which God has gone to definitively state how much you are worth, and the lengths to which God has gone to definitively state that your decisions made in your life matter, that you're part of the Kingdom, and that you're part of this story. ... You're in an epic story, and your decisions actually matter. The worst is when you are in the middle of an epic story and you don't even realize it."
Mass Readings from November 23, 2014:
Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17
1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28
Matthew 25:31-46
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Monday, November 24, 2014
11/23/14 Kingdom Come: Epic
Monday, November 17, 2014
11/16/14 Kingdom Come: First Love
Homily from the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.
"The image for the Kingdom is that Jesus is the Bridegroom and the Church is the Bride. And what happens, at the Last Supper what does Jesus give to His Bride? He says, 'Take this, this is My Body.' Just like a husband does to his wife on their wedding night, what does he say? He says, 'Take this, this is my body given for you.' And on the Last Supper night, Jesus Himself says to His Bride, the Church, 'Take this, this is My Body, given for you.' ... Remember that Jesus' mission was not just to save us, but to establish a Kingdom. And so when the Bride asks the Bridegroom, 'Jesus, are you going to establish a Kingdom now?' The Bridegroom says, 'No, no, no, I am entrusting My mission to you.' The Husband, finding in her someone worthy entrusts His Heart to her, that thing that is most important, most precious to Him. The last thing Jesus said on this earth was 'I am giving you my heart. I am entrusting my mission, that is now your mission.' ... You have to realize, you guys, when Jesus brought you into the Church, when He brought you into the Kingdom, He didn't just want to make you a part of the Kingdom. He wanted to make you a part of His mission in the Kingdom. Just like when a husband or a wife give themselves to each other, they don't just kind of want to share each other's life with each other, they want to share the mission of the other person."
Mass Readings from November 16, 2014:
Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31
1 Thessalonians 5:1-6
Matthew 25:14-30
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Monday, November 10, 2014
11/09/14 Kingdom Come: The Temple
Homily from the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome.
"'If the Temple was so important to the Jews, if it was so important for the Jews to be Jewish that they needed a temple, how come Christians didn't rebuild the Temple? When Christians came back into the Holy Land, when Christianity became the religion of the Roman Empire, how come they built St. John Lateran and didn't go back and rebuild the Temple?' Because of today's Gospel. What did Jesus say about the Temple? It's going to be destroyed. What's going to happen? I'm going to raise it up in three days. What Temple was He talking about? His own Body. And this is so crazy, when every Christian saw the destruction of the Temple, the Temple was gone but they already knew that just like Baptism had fulfilled and replaced circumcision, where does every Christian find Christ's Body [the Temple] everywhere in the world? In the Eucharist."
Mass Readings from November 09, 2014:
Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12
1 Corinthians 3:9-11, 16-17
John 2:13-22
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Monday, November 3, 2014
11/02/14 Kingdom Come: Truth and Consequences
Homily from the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls).
"So I am on the phone, 'Yes, Subaru people, thy will be done.' Because that's the key: 'You're the expert, and I don't know, so whatever you need to do, just go ahead and do it.' And that's what we say to the Father, that should be our core prayer: 'God, what do You want me to do? Let me do that.' If that's your prayer, you are on the right track. If that's not your prayer yet, it's a really, really good place to start. The reality is, we have to start. Because if we want God's Kingdom to come, if we want His Will to be done, that means it has to be done here first in us first."
Mass Readings from November 3, 2014:
Wisdom 3:1-9
Romans 5:5-11
John 6:37-45
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