09/23/18 Greatest of All Time: Selfless Ambition

Homily from the Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Ambition involves the willingness to risk. Selfless ambition is the willingness to risk the loss of status for the good of someone else.

Great leaders are not those who make their authority over others felt. Great leaders (and great people) are those who, like Christ, place themselves and their gifts at the service of others. They have no fear of losing their status, because they have no status to lose.

Mass Readings from September 23, 2018:
Psalm 54:3-4, 5, 6, 8
James 3:16-4:3
Mark 9:30-37

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09/16/18 Greatest of All Time: To Be Great, Give

Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Could you be great even if no one knew?

The desire to be seen and to be known is written deep in the human heart. But is a person great simply because a large number of people acknowledge them? Jesus reveals that true greatness is when a person gives themselves away to something or someone greater; it is to lay down one’s life for Him and for the Gospel. It does not consist in self-protection or self-expression, but in self-donation.

Mass Readings from September 16, 2018:
Isaiah 50:5-9
Psalm 116:1-9
James 2:14-18
Mark 8:27-35

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09/09/18 Greatest of All Time: Identity, Not Ability

Homily from the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

You don't have to do all the things. You just have to do the thing.

We can put off doing the one thing we need to do in order to do other, less important, tasks. Or we can do the will of God as He lays it out for us and simply do the thing.

Mass Readings from September 09, 2018:
Isaiah 35:4-7
Psalm 146:6-10
James 2:1-5
Mark 7:31-37

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09/02/18 Do The Thing

Homily from the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time.

You don't have to do all the things. You just have to do the thing.

We can put off doing the one thing we need to do in order to do other, less important, tasks. Or we can do the will of God as He lays it out for us and simply do the thing.

Mass Readings from September 02, 2018:
Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-8
Psalm 15:2-5
James 1:17-18, 21-22, 27
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23