A homily for the Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 27, 2020
Ez 18:25-28, Phil 2:1-11, Mt 21:28-32
As you may or may not know, I was a deadline editor at newspapers for 40 years, and several times during my career I was part of a team whose task was to (a) transform the look and feel of the newspaper, (b) add the news to websites and apps, (c) revise the look and feel of the newspaper again, and so on. And on and on.
Also, as you likely know, the news never stops. So all of these transformations had to be engineered and accomplished while we reported, fact-checked, re-reported, re-fact-checked, edited, illustrated, designed and published the newspaper and website.
We did not get to stop what we were doing to rip apart, tear down, gather materials and rebuild.
We realized we had to work as if we were changing the tires on Interstate 80 at 80 miles per hour.
