If No Danger, Why the Warning? – Oct 23 – Homily – Fr Alan

 

On the memorial of Saint John of Capistrano (Franciscan priest, Oct 23, 2019), Father Alan comments on the immediacy of Our Lord’s words in today’s Gospel: “You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come." With the strange happenings and discussions at the current and recent Synods, the signs of the times only serve to underscore the perennial truth, that Christ’s disciples must not sleep nor become complacent, but remain ever vigilant.

Pope St. John Paul II reminded us that “everyone, the whole people of God has a part in [Christ’s] threefold mission” of “Priest, Teaching Prophet, King”—so let us exercise that mission in fidelity to Christ and hold true to the apostolic faith, and pray for the ministerial shepherds of the Church--all the more for those to whom more has been given (cf. Lk 12:48).

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. John of Capistrano - Opt Mem

Readings: Wednesday 29th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: Rom 6:12-18
Resp: Ps 124:1-3, 4-6, 7-8
Gsp: Lk 12:39-48

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