This homily is based on Mark 8:27-35.
I found myself laughing out loud this Sunday morning over someone’s tweet. It was a short video clip of a girl applying for membership to a church group.
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TURNING THE TABLE ON GOD
This homily is based on Mark 7:31-37.
I’ve been thinking about Cristy these days. I don’t think I will ever forget what I saw when I last visited her in the hospital. I had been warned about her, but I was shocked anyway. She wasn’t at all the Cristy I knew. Her cancer had ravaged her body: All skin and bones, she stared at me with one eye, the other forced shut by the growing tumor in her brain.
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THE BECKONING OF BENCHES
This homily is based on Mark 7:1-23.
I took an early morning stroll today in a city I don’t know, one I’ve never set foot in before. Learning that I had only one day in the city, a friendly Afghan immigrant in a 24-hour convenience store pointed the way to a famous park nearby.
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HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER
This homily is abased on John 6:51-58.
Last night someone who had gone to an anticipated Sunday Mass bumped into me and surprised me with his reaction. He said: “The Bread of Life?! Again?!”
He’s right. This is the third Sunday that the Gospel reading has been about the Bread of Life–and what he doesn’t know yet is that it won’t be the last. Next Sunday will still be about the Bread of Life! I told him, “If you think listening to it for the nth time is hard, try writing a homily about it for the nth time!”
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HUNGER IN A TIME OF ABUNDANCE
This homily is based on John 6:24-35.
Our Gospel today is literally good news. Our Lord makes us an important promise: “Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.”
Jesus is not talking about physical hunger or physical thirst, obviously. Rather, he is referring to an existential hunger and thirst, that profound need that we occasionally sense in ourselves, a space that nothing the world offers can ever fill.