Take Up Your Cross: The True Meaning of Charity & Baptism – Jun 28 – Homily – Fr Maximilian
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Fr. Maximilian M. Warnisher gives the homily for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Jun 28, 2026), reflecting on the virtue of charity as the crowning of all virtues, and emphasizing that a wholehearted "yes" to God requires us to embrace our daily crosses and live a life of sacrifice.
Drawing from Saint Paul, Father explores how baptism literally means to be buried to the darkness of sin and raised into a life of grace, urging believers to maintain this profound union with God through constant love and gratitude.
Index
00:00 - Charity: The Crowning Virtue and Love of God
01:10 - The Call to Sacrifice and Taking Up Your Cross
02:41 - Living Christ's Life: Accepting Crosses and Following Him
03:14 - Baptism: Burial to Sin, Resurrection to Grace
04:48 - The Transformative Power of Baptism and Maintaining Grace
06:14 - God's Love, Creation, and Our Divine Image
07:55 - Our Dependence on God and Offering All in Love
Scriptural, Catechetical, and Magisterial resources
Matthew 10:37 – Love God above all others – https://airmaria.com/go/Uu4bpB
Romans 6:3-4 – Buried with Christ through Baptism into death – https://airmaria.com/go/FESa8Y
Matthew 16:24 – Take up your cross and follow Christ – https://airmaria.com/go/DeN3dq
CCC 1262 – Baptism purifies from all sins, original and actual – https://airmaria.com/go/QGdSKb
CCC 1825 – Charity is the form of all virtues – https://airmaria.com/go/L9Tdak
Pope John Paul II 2004 – Only Jesus reveals God's counsel and path to wisdom – https://airmaria.com/go/fMKuTG
Pope Francis 2023 – Embrace Christ's cross by generously offering life in loving service – https://airmaria.com/go/9iFxbr
Sancta Sedes 2022 – Following Jesus means becoming disciples on the Jerusalem way – https://airmaria.com/go/j76bzq
Sancta Sedes 2010 – Christians celebrate the Cross as source of life and hope – https://airmaria.com/go/mvW8BJ
Pope Benedict XVI 2010 – Disciples follow the Crucified Jesus through passion to resurrection – https://airmaria.com/go/v7jBn5
Ave Maria!
Mass: 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Sunday
Readings: - http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062826.cfm
1st: 1 Kings 19:16-21 - The Call of Elisha
Resp: Psalms 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 - God the Supreme Good
2nd: Galatians 5:1, 13-18 - Freedom in the Spirit
Gsp: Luke 9:51-62 - Journey to Jerusalem
More on the Readings: https://airmaria.com/r?m=773
Also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8eHbF9nYi4
