Homily: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This weekend’s Gospel is the familiar story of Jesus healing ten lepers and only one comes back to give thanks.  But there is another reason that Luke records this story, for while the gift of gratitude is important – the returning, grateful leper has much more to teach us about how to live our lives.  Check it out….

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Homily: Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

This Sunday we were given the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.  And on cursory read of this parable it would seem that that the Rich Man, because he was rich, was tormented in the netherworld… and the poor man, because he was poor, is carried by angels to the bosom of Abraham. Can you picture how rankled the Pharisees were, dressed in their fine robes and upper-class status, as they listened to this story? 

Actually many who read this parable today are just as upset – after all isn’t being rich what life is all about?!

Well, would you be surprised that recently the Pope was preaching the same lesson to all of us as Jesus was to the Pharisees? 

Click the link, and see what I mean…

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