Homily Notes: Jan 05 2020

Readings:

• Isaiah says there will be wealth streaming into the restored Israel.
• Paul says the inclusion of the Gentiles is the revelation of a great mystery. 
• The Magi visit Jesus and depart. 

Homily:  675 words
Estimated Time: 5 minutes

Homily Notes: Dec 29 2019

Readings:

• Sirach says to take care of your father in his old age
• Paul gives some moral commandments to the Colossians
• The holy family escapes to Egypt

Homily: 1087 Words
Estimated Time: Seven Minutes

Homily Notes: Dec 22 2019

Readings:

The prophecy of the "young woman" giving birth.
The opening to Paul's letter to the Romans
Matthew's account of the Nativity

Homily: 806 Words
Estimated Time:  4.75 minutes

How Does a Catholic Read: 1 Timothy 2:11-15

Christians believe that the Old and New Testaments are the “inspired word of God”.  This means (in the words of the Catholic Church) everything asserted by the author is asserted by the Holy Spirit and is therefore infallibly true.  However, with some passages that’s a hard pill to swallow.

Today I want to look at what I regard to be the most embarrassing passage in the New Testament: 1Timothy 2:11-15

Homily Notes: Dec 15 2019

Readings:

• Isaiah prophecies good tidings for Israel, including the curing of the blind and deaf.
• James insists that people practice patience and not complain.
• John the Baptists inquires if Jesus really is the Messiah.  

Homily: 505 Words
Estimated Time: Three Minutes

Lay Homily: Dec 8 2019

Readings:  

• The prophecy of David’s heir coming and all the tribes of the earth being blessed.

• Paul saying Christ became a minister to the circumcised so the Gentiles would glorify God.

• John the Baptist lambasting the Pharisees for thinking their status as descendants of Abraham afforded them favor with God, “for God can raise of children for Abraham from these stones.”

Homily: 551 words.  
Estimated time:  Three minutes.

Presentation: "The Eight Last Things"

Last evening I gave a talk on the "Four Last Things" to the teenagers at our youth group.  But it was really the "Eight Last Things"... because there's more to being dead than the traditional meditation would leave you to believe.