Homily #120713 (05min) Play - "Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves."
Ave Maria!
Mass: St. Henry - Opt Mem - Form: OF Readings: Friday 14th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: gen 46:1-7, 28-30
Resp: psa 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40
Gsp: mat 10:16-23
Thank you Fr. Dominic for your homilies. Particularly today’s and yesterday’s.
There are times, unfortunately, when we ache to hear the truth taught from the pulpit, as we have become so accustomed to hearing vague and incoherent observations regarding the daily gospel.
To heal our world, and the wounds of sin within the Church, we must be taught once again to truly love purity, and to desire a love of poverty, and true humility — all three of these so important to our salvation and purification. And of course we must desire and be given the wisdom to know the difference between these great gifts of God — and the counterfeits of them that Satan will inevitably present to us to tempt us and lead us away from the truth.
Our world, and even the church (though not at Her core), has been infected with a spiritual plague and is currently in very great danger. We have become desensitized to our sins and blinded by our desire for pleasure and luxury. The good news has been counterfeited as well, and turned into a hedonistic desire for what, in a worldly manner, has become know as the good life. As if God was in fact Mammon.
05min) Play - "Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves."
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Thank you Fr. Dominic for your homilies. Particularly today’s and yesterday’s.
There are times, unfortunately, when we ache to hear the truth taught from the pulpit, as we have become so accustomed to hearing vague and incoherent observations regarding the daily gospel.
To heal our world, and the wounds of sin within the Church, we must be taught once again to truly love purity, and to desire a love of poverty, and true humility — all three of these so important to our salvation and purification. And of course we must desire and be given the wisdom to know the difference between these great gifts of God — and the counterfeits of them that Satan will inevitably present to us to tempt us and lead us away from the truth.
Our world, and even the church (though not at Her core), has been infected with a spiritual plague and is currently in very great danger. We have become desensitized to our sins and blinded by our desire for pleasure and luxury. The good news has been counterfeited as well, and turned into a hedonistic desire for what, in a worldly manner, has become know as the good life. As if God was in fact Mammon.
Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha, pray for us.