Name 1 or 2 things you have heard in a homily that have changed your life.. (or at least your day?)

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I regret to say I have yet to hear anything in a homily that changed my life. Truth is, the priest that celebrates the TLM and the parish priest that celebrates the Ordinary Sunday mass give terrible homilies. 😦
 
acadian said:
During Lent at a Mass for Cub Scouts: Does anyone know what sandpaper is? [Paper with sand.] Does anyone know what it’s used for? [Sanding out rough spots.]
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yeah but sandpaper hurts… which is why so many people put off doing their Purgatory… until death… but one saint said God doesn’t want that, that he wants us to do it Here… which makes sense… This is when it can a lot of good for the person & others… (society)…
Last week: A beautiful story about a young girl with a beloved string of plastic pearls. Asked by her father to give them to him, she refused. But eventually, she gave them to him and he replaced them with a string of real pearls. Until we give to our Father things of lesser value (attitudes, selfishness, self-righteousness, materialism), He can not give to us things of greater value - the pearl of great value that is His peace.
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This is a wonderful message, and weird because i had just been thinking about such truths… & how “true” they really are…
Sometimes a rattlesnake will get so mad that it will bite itself. We are like that, too, sometimes when we are wronged. But the better answer might be to reach out in humility and to forgive.
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I love our pastor’s homilies…
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Wow… I like that analogy of the rattlesnake because it sums up whaat many sins really entail… Like unforgiveness… it only hurts the unforgiving person… not the one who is unforgiven… Whne we get angry & frustrated over someone’s lack of charity toward us… Same thing… It is probably very stressful for a person’s body & mind to be angry and unforgiving… which isn’t good for physical health either…

Thnaks so much…
 
2 things, the first was that when you are experiencing great suffering and tempted to feel discouraged, remeber that no one reaches easter Sunday without suffering their own Good Friday,
The second great homily was about Thomas, the first Sunday, he missed the gathering and his faith was put into a state of crisis. One week later, the second Sunday he was there and his faith was restored, if he had missed the second Sunday what might have become of his faith. Remeber this when you are tempted to miss Mass, one Sunday and your faith is in crisis, 2 Sundays…and will you return? It is no small thing to miss Sunday mass.
 
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