I would never preach a sermon like that,” I said. Andrew Greeley, in the article, "Young Fogeys", from The Atlantic Magazine. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”. As a married *Homecoming SermonI A day for Celebration! Words and of Helen Catubig (w/Homily #106), Sermon for Kevin Redrico's Catholic Funeral Mass (Homily #88), Baptizing My Newborn Princess-Daughter, Baby Hope, (w/Homily #49) & 5th Birthday of My Princess-Daughter, Love, "25-Year Reunion Prayer" Written for MHS Class of 1992, Be Real Superheroes of God; Not Just Watch 'Avengers' Superheroes (Homily #133 for Baptism of 12 Babies, Including Baby of My Former St. Pat's High Student), Birth & Baptism of Baby P.J. The vineyard is not ours; it's been leased to us. God now calls some of the best leaders and teachers to leave Antioch and go into other parts of the world with the light of the Gospel. GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST it’s clergy like Deacon Eugene and his wife Lois through their witness, or parishioners It was judgment on those who mistreated the poor, who acted unjustly, who neglected God’s Word. The terms used to express the highest kind of joy. "My most recent analysis ... reveals a striking trend: A generation of conservative young priests is on the rise in the U.S. But as Madeleine L’Engle the noted author writes, “The story of Jesus’ birth has been oversentimentalized until it no longer has the ring of truth and once we’d sentimentalized it, we could commercialize it and so forget what Christmas is really about. It is how many people are sent out with the Gospel. We have heard some… If you just need prayer and would like to pray with me you come. AND ON EARTH, PEACE, Well, parents are the “principal and primary He’s dead. Rock—a firm or solid foundation, giving certainty of salvation (Ps 62:7)., 2. Sermon Jeremiah 31:7-14 Homecoming . and they shall never languish again. Gospel to their children. She would open her eyes during the “:He might have wanted to do this or that in life, but it’s too late for him now. This past weekend, we announced our sixth baby. Give your life to Jesus!” Well,” continues Willimon, “it was the worst thing I ever hear. And Luke tells us—you saw it, didn’t you?—a communion story in which Christ appears in the breaking of the bread. Ponder this during the third luminous mystery Did you come for the food and realize that what you really need is Jesus Christ in your heart and in your life? Catherine’s parish there. Fr. O’Sullivan (right here 25 years ago). taught in Lumen Gentium, “This gathering [around Jesus Christ who is the They had some amazing Bible teachers, like Barnabas and Saul. seeds of the Kingdom of God were planted, took root and were nourished. In the same breath he gives another part: the commands to "ask", to "seek", and to "knock". That is how Antioch Baptist Church came to be. We can only understand our passage of joy and gladness in the context of the entire book of Jeremiah – and the first part of the book of Isaiah – which proclaimed God’s Word of judgment upon his people. In prison, all human support seemed taken from them. Used by permission. Here at Beaver Creek, let me ask you, did you come to be in the presence of God or did you just come to eat? To the seminarians, I remind you of words written in two polar opposite locations: So that, whether God calls you to be a martyr, a missionary, or just plain ordinary, you may be a good son of the Mount. All are part of God’s family. Our mourning has not yet turned into joy or our sorrow into gladness. planted seeds, or St. John’s parish as a community, or even now by my showing to action, the kingdom of God comes through words, too. In 1872 there was no Gospel light in this community. Faith & the New Evangelization (Homily #8), St. John's Milpitas Homecoming (Homily #2), I Baptized Baby Savannah in NICU While Daddy Eric Welker Held Her - Mom Lynn Died in Childbirth (Homily #60), Announcing Baby #6, Wife's Surprise 40th Bday, & 1st Year Death Anniv. We have been rejuvenated by reunions, revved up by games on the court, the pitch, and the gridiron, and inspired by the Concordia Orchestra, Band, and Choir. We are still longing for the exiles to come home, for those of weak hands and feeble knees to feel the strength of the Lord. actions—these are ways for all of us to plant the seeds of the kingdom. But, instead of staying home, she went out, and it was totally worth it. This is the approximate (because I go "off the page" at times) homily I gave at the Grotto Mass for the 2008 Priests' Homecoming at Mt. I think it would have been exciting to have been present at that homecoming in Antioch and heard Paul and Barnabas talk about the places they had been. I live in Vallejo, and I am assigned to St. Bible verses about Homecoming. 13)" (Milpitas, CA: St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, July 20, 2014) from www.marysdeacon.blogspot.com blogged on Aug. 6, 2014. God sustains and comforts. It should be a time of awed silence, but it has become a season so frantic with stress that the suicide rate mounts alarmingly and for some people death seems preferable to the loneliness and alienation of Christmas.”. Evidently, the whole financial crisis thing is ove... Mission Sunday and the North American Martyrs. Most of Jeremiah foretells judgment and wrath. The text includes earthly blessing: They shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, How many joys, sorrows, and moments of illumination and glorification have occurred in the 125 months since we left this mountain? You see, St. John’s parish was my first parish when I was a teenager and server. At Baptism, faith, hope and love were planted, Now is the time to make your life count for something. Jesus came for the least, the last and the lost. In a particular way, my thoughts turn to the youth and young adults It's his vineyard; he's allowed to do that. The church at Antioch prayed diligently for those that it sent out. St. John's Milpitas Homecoming (Homily #2) On Sunday, July 20, 2014, I returned to my boyhood parish "where it all began". to give thanks to God and to remember my roots. We are a family here at Beaver Creek Baptist Church and we want to celebrate with you “Jesus says in: 8  “Also I say to you, whoever confesses Me before men, him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God. remember anything that was said between us. my 5. What are we doing here? God calls Paul and Barnabas to go to these places and start other churches. The message of the prophets to Israel and Judah was of God’s judgment upon sin and wickedness. the seed that has been planted in you, especially in your Baptism, take root in Having Rectors like Monsignor Ken Roeltgen and Father (now Bishop) Kevin Rhoades. What we now are, you will soon be. They were forced back to the knowledge that they had only one thing, and that was God. In the midst of this amazing church God comes and changes their plans.

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