Name something awesome you heard in a homily

[Augustine]

In contrast to another good thread, I decided to start this one for justice’s sake.

In my case, a couple of years ago, I heard, for the first time in my life, a homily at daily Mass at the cathedral against contraception.

I made a point of congratulating the young priest at a later opportunity for his courage and wisdom.

Sadly, I haven’t heard another homily on the subject since.

May St. John Vianney pray for our shepherds.

 

[InLight247]

I applaud for your good intention. I am all the way for positive approaches .

 

[Trishie]

A young Capuchin priest introduced his homily with the words, “Lent is a time for new beginnings. Easter is the time for fulfilment of God’s promises. And God fulfils all of His promises.”
I felt a surge of excitement.
“You fulfil all of Your promises, Lord God!”

 

[Beautiful]

Years ago a beautiful Cistercian priest said “Everyday we labor to do this and that. We even labor to breath every moment we live. Our chests move in and out as witness to how we labor to breath even when we think we are resting.
We should be even more conscious to labor to imitate Christ. Labor vs. labor - LIFE is more important than life. Labor for LIFE day in and day out.”

I determined that labor was crucial to obtaining Life.

 

[3Sanctus]

Tonight I heard a homily from a Byzantine Catholic deacon on holy space and it was magnificent and I felt it really spoke to my heart, by the grace of God. He talked about how in many parishes we’ve destroyed out scared space and time in church, and how we often don’t take advantage of or outright ignore the opportunities we have to connect with God. Granted, that’s the short version of it, but it was amazing and really impressed upon me the importance of something I think we all “know,” but don’t realize - you catch my drift; we know it theoretically on some level, but don’t live it due to our tendency to worry too much about “my life” and not enough about “His life” - after all, our life is not our own, but Christ’s! He has ransomed our life, and it is no longer ours to live for our own sake, but His, to be lived for His glory! Alleluia!

In His Love,
Stephen

 

[rudytoo72]

One of the deacons at our church gave a beautiful homily recently. He brought out an old beaten-up metal bowl and a little hammer-looking thing. He had the altar server hold the gavel while he held the bowl. He told the server to pretend to be God and to hit the bowl with the gavel. He told us to listen to the sound it made. He hit it and it made a sound, but nothing special. He said do you know why it didn’t sound good? Because I was holding too tightly to the bowl. But he said watch now when I don’t hold on so tightly, He asked the server to hit it again. It made THE most beautiful sound you could imagine! He said do it again. And he did. Same sound. He said if we just let go of things, don’t hold on too tightly and just let God work in us, He will make beautiful music in us too. I thought that was awesome. I’m sure I haven’t done justice to his homily with this post, but it was actually quite a beautiful thing. There is nothing quite like a good homily to send us on our way feeling more committed to God and our wonderful faith!

 

[Eileen_T]

Our priest has spoken several times against contraception BTW.

He also preaches/teaches about the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell.

He told us to say this prayer:

God, please do whatever it takes to get my soul to Heaven.

Then he smiled and told us we had given God permission.

In a homily on the need to go to Confession he told us that he doesn’t want someone coming and telling him they robbed a bank or beat someone up or committed adultery. That means they have left it far too late. We need to be confessing the small stuff, the venial sins so we can become strong enough to resist the temptation to commit mortal sins.