Homily: 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Certainly listening to today’s readings of apocalyptic literature, dealing with end times as well as the destruction of the temple may make some of us squirm a bit in our seats. But if you look carefully at when and why it was written you realize that this scripture is not about future events rather it is about imminent reality – the here and now.  So where does our focus need to be? And what insight can theologian N.T. Wright provide which just may open our eyes to where God is present?  Check it out…

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Homily: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This weekend we hear a gospel from Matthew which is broken into three basic parts: the parable of the sower…Jesus’s reasoning for using parables… and then lastly, the explanation Jesus gave his first century followers of what this parable was all about.  But there is something so obvious to see in this story that even Jesus omitted it from his explanation. 

What did Jesus leave out of his elucidation of this gospel?  And how can that missing piece of the puzzle change your life? 

Click and listen to how the answer to these questions is found….in the soil.

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