Invitation To Radically Trust God
Homily 02 26 2017
8th Sunday OT A
Homily 02 26 2017
8th Sunday OT A
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Homily 02 26 2017
Scripture Readings: Is. 49:14-5 1 Cor. 4:1-5 Mt. 6:24-34
One thing I most like about Jesus is his oratorical style. It's like my own sometimes. I call it the "Why use one word when five will do?" approach. If a thing is worth saying one way, it's worth saying several other ways too!
The gospel today, and really the entire Sermon on the Mount utilizes
this approach. Jesus keeps saying the same thing, over and over, in
different ways, from different directions.
Today's Gospel is yet
another way of summarizing the same thing: Jesus is the fulfillment of
the entire Hebraic law, the messianic completion of all that Matthew's
Israelite readers had previously believed. He is the new Moses; what he
says completes what Moses said before.
Today the entire decalogue
is summed up in the first commandment. "I am the Lord Thy God, thou
shalt not have strange Gods before me," i.e. there is no other God but
God. The entire Sermon is summarized in this line. You cannot have two
Gods, two masters. Nobody can serve, be faithful to more than one God.
The Sermon on the Mount suggests simply: If we meet Jesus, everything else will follow
Everything Jesus has said in the Sermon so far, everything we've heard over the past several weeks invites us to trust in this God more than we do in stuff (i.e. not just money, but Mammon, or things).
As we come to the end of the Sermon on the Mount and prepare for Lent, what do we hold onto? An invitation to radically trust God, the God we have met and been loved by, in Jesus. And to radically build our lives on that trust!
I once heard a wonderful story on the importance of Canon Law in the Church. It speaks also to the importance of Old Covenant in relationship to the Sermon on the Mount.
The Sermon on the Mount suggests simply: If we meet Jesus, everything else will follow. If we have met God, met Jesus and let him be our master, everything else will follow.
During the coming Lenten season, we enter more fully into that meeting with God in Jesus. We do that in Eucharist now.
Next week Lent begins. It’s a season when many of us decide to make some personal sacrifices. We do it for many reasons: to deepen our awareness of our spiritual life and our inner hunger for God; to give up something we like and give the money we save to the poor; to express sorrow for our sins, etc.
These and many others are noble and worthy intentions indeed.
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The Search // Episode 5 // Who is Jesus? The most beautiful part of this story is this we can know God's love, personally. This is the person of Jesus. But how did this seemingly insignificant carpenter born into poverty in a dusty corner of the Roman Empire become the most pivotal figure in all of history? Christianity isn’t simply a philosophy for life – the center of Christianity is a person. We look at the life of Jesus and what he came to do. Ultimately, we need to decide if Jesus really was who he said he was. We can’t sit on the fence. Because if Jesus really was who he said he was, we need to make him the Lord of our lives, and everything changes.
The Search // Episode 6 // Am I Saved? What Jesus did for us through his life, death and resurrection was the greatest act of love in history. He saved us. He did this for each one of us. Personally. But some might feel unworthy of this gift of love. We may feel we have too much baggage. We may feel unlovable. But God didn’t come to reveal himself to us on a pedestal, he came to enter into our messy human condition. To fix us from within. To transform us from the inside out. Some might be surprised by how generous the love of God really is. We don’t deserve God’s love, but that’s the amazing reality of God’s mercy. This relationship with God isn’t all about our love for Him. It’s about His love for us that changes our lives forever.
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My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most holy Eucharist. I love you above all things, and I desire to receive you into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already there and unite myself wholly to you. Never permit me to be separated from you. Amen.
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