A homily for the Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 28, 2024
2 Kgs 4:42-44, Eph 4:1-6, Jn 6:1-15
Let’s think about numbers for a moment.
Not the Old Testament Book of Numbers; that’s for another day.
No, I’m thinking about how numbers — mathematics and all that — are a big part of our relationship with God.
Because, of course, God created math and science and the laws of nature.
And miracles.
A homily for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 21, 2024
Jer 23:1-6, Eph 2:13-18, Mk 6:30-34
I’ve been to a few concerts in my day, a list filled mostly with rock concerts, and one sticks out in my mind.
Not for the songs at the show, but for the crush of the crowd.
A homily for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 14, 2024
Am 7:12-15, Eph 1:3-14 or 1:3-10, Mk 6:7-13
Let’s start with a story about how not to evangelize.
When I was in the third grade at St. Leo the Great School in Lincroft, our teachers told us of the great rewards that awaited us in the afterlife if we brought other people into the faith. If we made converts.
Most of us, myself included, expected a shorter stay in Purgatory or, better yet, coconut cream and key lime pies for dessert at every meal in the Heavenly banquet.
A homily for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 7, 2024
Ez 2:2-5, 2 Cor 12:7-10, Mk 6:1-6
“That’s amazing.”
We’ve all probably seen the Consumer Cellular ad in which the lady in the kitchen is talking with the sales rep while the gentleman is jumping into a pool, doing little tricks.
Yet what amazes her, according to the ad, is not the man’s Olympic wannabe diving prowess but the mobile phone’s features and the company’s service.
Apparently proving, once again, that we 21st-century Americans love our high-tech flashy-sparkly-shiny things.
