A homily for the Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, October 3, 2021
Gn 2:18-24, Heb 2:9-11, Mk 10:2-16
We’ve all heard the old saw “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” And history has proven that true time and again.
But what about “The bigger they are, the more humble they become”?
Doesn’t sound familiar.
A delayed and brief homily for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 12, 2021
Is 50:5-9a, Jas 2:14-18, Mk 8:27-35
Though we believe the Scriptures to be the inspired Word of God, not all of them are easily understood or digested. Not all of them have an immediately obvious application to modern life. Some can be serious head-scratchers.
Which is why we have homilies, among other reasons.
Occasionally, though, we hear a segment of Scripture that is perfectly simple and simply perfect.
And a long or tedious homily, as The Bard said in “King John,”
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily / To throw a perfume on the violet. . .. / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
