Sermons That Stay With You

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I was fortunate this week and last to hear Sunday sermons which left lasting impressions.
Last week Fr. Rutler said 2 things which have changed how I look at things.
  1. We are all looking for Jesus. Not new, granted, but he made it a refrain and it was very successfully phrased and emphasized. This wek I have felt new kinship with everyone I have encountered as I realize that despite our circumstances we are all engaged in a search for Jesus, even those who are unaware of Jesus. No one looks the same. I have more empathy, sympathy and patience for eveyone I met.
  2. Make everything a prayer. Again, not new, certainly the saints have told us this time and again, but he made me hear it as if for the first time. At one point he said even when we watch an entertainment we should make that a prayer, or bring prayer to it. If we couldn’t do so with a particular item, we shouldn’t be watching it. I even turned something off this week when I found I couldn’t make it part of my prayer life. Wow!
Today Fr. John Neuhaus (First Things) was guest homilist. He said there are 2 kinds of people, those who pray my will be done and those who pray Thy will be done. God answers both prayers to the eternal sorrow of the first, and the eternal joy of the second.
Again, nothing new, but expressed so masterfully that it can’t be ignored.
Thanks be to God for good preachers.
 
Yesterday, the priest at a mass with many non-practising catholics spoke about abortion due to the fact of abortion debates in parliment. (Our catholic Health Minister was attacked by another MP with a shirt that said “Get You Rosaries Off My Ovaries” and no one batted an eye lid) Our priest simply stated;

LIFE IS SEEMLESS

NO ABORTION FOR THE UNBORN

NO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR THE PRISONER

NO EUTHANASIA FOR THE ELDERLY

Simple but beautiful!!!
 
When NZ legalised prostitution a priest told us that when the laws of the government contradicted God’s Laws, we had a duty to disobey our country’s law.
 
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