Sunday, January 22, 2012 - What was the homily today?

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There was a thread a while back discussing what the priest talked about in his homily. What did your priest talk about at Mass this weekend? Ours talked about how we need to repent and turn from our sinful ways, for this world is passing away. I loved it because you rarely hear a homily these days on the topic of repentance.
 
IThe homily was tied into the OT Scripture readin on Jonah. It was on the need to call whole cities to repentance, even if we don’t want to. The particular topic of repetance was the evils of abortion and the need to elect a pro-life, pro marriage president.

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Being the 39th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade (:() our pastor gave a rather fiery homily on the culture of death in our society, on how it (our culture) is going down a road of immorality that, unless it is stopped, will prevent a return to Godliness. He is an older man, this pastor, and his sober, clear admonitions got a rousing round of applause from the congregation. He specifically spoke about the Obama Admin’s decision to enforce birth control viz. health care – which shocked me, it is a fairly ‘liberal’ area we live in. God bless him, and all God’s servants, who stand up for the Truth and Our Lord Jesus Christ no matter the consequences.

God help America.
 
Brendan said:
IThe homily was tied into the OT Scripture readin on Jonah. It was on the need to call whole cities to repentance, even if we don’t want to. The particular topic of repetance was the evils of abortion and the need to elect a pro-life, pro marriage president.

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Amen!
 
Our pastor gave a homily on how we are called to be the Jonah in the lives of our “Ninevites”. He commented on how Peter eventually went to preach in the Nineveh of his time --Rome.
 
Our PP started the first of a series of homilies on Faith. In order to walk with Jesus we need to search our hearts and ask ourselves why we come to Mass. If we are Catholics because our parents are Catholics, that is not good enough… we need to go deeper than that.

This, first, homily on Faith went into the proofs for the existence of God. We need to know what we believe, get it sorted out, not just drift with the current.

The kingdom of God is at hand. It is not somewhere we *will *go to… it is where we live now.
 
We had a very short homily today. However since it’s Christian Unity week we had the pastor from one of the local Protestor churches preach…
 
Our associate pastor struggles in English - it’s not his first language - so he always keeps it simple and throws in a few jokes.

There’s four reasons why people don;t catch fish.

Wrong bait.

Wrong lake.

Don’t know how to fish.

Or if they have the right bait, the right lake, and they know how to fish, they don’t catch fish because they don’t go fishing.

We have the bait - eternal life, and the Gospel message.

We have the lake - millions of people are desperate to hear the good news.

We know how to fish, if we follow Jesus.

So why aren’t we fishing?
 
Our priest based his on the Gospel reading, specifically regarding vocations. He talked about the call he had as a young boy, and his experiences and life as a seminarian and priest. It was very positive and uplifting.
 
Kingdom of God, Repent, Believe! Kingdom of God should be a mainstay of our Catholic spirituality. The Sacrament of Reconciliation, how it works hand in hand with repentance. The Culture of Death, how it’s permeated our society, touched everyone’s lives, and ultimately, makes some of us sinning non-believers.
 
It was about repentence and how it’s never too late and that there is no heart that God can’t change
 
The homily was about how time is running out, and the need to avoid missing opportunities for doing good works and demonstrating the Gospel to others about us. I was a little surprised, since I had expected a pro-life homily, with this being the 39th anniversary of Roe v Wade. I work in health care, at the other end of the spectrum of life (in an ICU,) and was looking forward to some teaching on end of life care.
 
He talked about Hell, and that contrary to popular belief, it still exists and if you die with even one unconfessed mortal sin on your soul you will go to Hell. Furthermore, he said that when you get there, you’ll have no one to blame but yourself, as you didn’t make use (or frequent use) of the gifts God gave, particularly Confession.
 
Deo_Gratias42 said:
He talked about Hell, and that contrary to popular belief, it still exists and if you die with even one unconfessed mortal sin on your soul you will go to Hell. Furthermore, he said that when you get there, you’ll have no one to blame but yourself, as you didn’t make use (or frequent use) of the gifts God gave, particularly Confession.
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👍 He sounds like my PP. Deo Gratias indeed!
 
I think it was on the Kingdom of God and the hope it brings. Our pastor also pointed out that Jesus didn’t tell his disciples to leave their nets and learn to preach; He accepted that fishing was their talent and promised to make them fishers of men - to adapt their natural abilities to the Kingdom.

We have a good priest, the tabernacle was recently moved to the center of the altar. Before he was appointed it was to the side.
 
CaptCrunch73 said:
We had a very short homily today. However since it’s Christian Unity week we had the pastor from one of the local Protestor churches preach…
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😦 Unity is a valid hope, but not at the expense of truth. Was his message doctrinally compatible?
 
We are all called to be Prophet, Priest and King. We are to always preach God’s truth, serve the Church and one another, and participate in building up the Kingdom of Heaven. This segued into a message from the Archbishop regarding the kick-off the Archbishop’s Charity and Development drive.
 
Brendan said:
IThe homily was tied into the OT Scripture readin on Jonah. It was on the need to call whole cities to repentance, even if we don’t want to. The particular topic of repetance was the evils of abortion and the need to elect a pro-life, pro marriage president.

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same at my parish. the priest reflected on the first reading from Jonah (nothing about life issues etc)
 
Brendan said:
IThe homily was tied into the OT Scripture readin on Jonah. It was on the need to call whole cities to repentance, even if we don’t want to. The particular topic of repetance was the evils of abortion and the need to elect a pro-life, pro marriage president.

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I forgot about the Ninevah aspect too. He was tying it in with the abuses against human life, and he said that if America continues her persecution of human life and continues to twist the truth of what is right and wrong, we might not be so lucky as the city of Ninevah.
 
josephback said:
😦 Unity is a valid hope, but not at the expense of truth. Was his message doctrinally compatible?
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Her message was about praying, talking to god and being respectful. I did watch and she didn’t go to communion. Our pastor was preaching a a different Protestant church on the other side of town. This is what happens in my town during Christian Unity Week, all the pastors play musical churches and preach at each others churches.

I don’t know, maybe I’m grumpy today but when I left church today I turned to my wife and said this was the most spiritually damaging mass I’ve ever been too… maybe it’s wrong to feel this way, perhaps I should be happy we have a priest to say mass there is a huge priest shortage in my archdiocese and we’re combing parishes.
 
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