Deep Calls to Deep Roc Homily Part One – Twenty-Fourth Sunday Ordinary Time 2016
The Prodigal Family has impulse control issues The father of the family can’t help himself. He gives what should not be given. He runs wildly to meet the younger son. He has the fatted calf prepared for a feast. He pleads with the elder son. The younger son can’t help himself either. He asks for […]
Roc Homily #2 – Twenty-Third Sunday Ordinary Time 2016
Punchline for Homily – 23rd Sunday Ordinary Time: Surrender everything that you rely on for security so as to find security in following Christ. Here are two key words I dealt with in my homily: “Hate” mother and father, etc. means to reject and separate, which leaves a person in a very vulnerable spot. To […]
Ignatian Spirituality #4
“16 Reasons I am grateful for St. Ignatius” – Dennis Hamm, SJ Thank you, Ignatius, for being a “soul brother.” He referred to his mission as “helping souls,” not because he thought he was dealing with disembodied spirits, but because “soul” connoted the divine origin, dignity, and destiny of every human being he encountered. He was […]
Roc Homily #2 – Twenty-Second Sunday Ordinary Time 2016
Humility & being “right-sized” Part Deux This comes from the 9:00 am Mass at Gesu on the 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time. It offers a fuller investigation into “being right-sized.” Blessings! –roc,sj
Roc Homily – Twenty-Second Sunday Ordinary Time 2016
Humility is about being right-sized & compassionate… There’s a little less chance to living as self-absorbed when humble. More chance of being compassionate. This passage left out the front end of a bookend: Jesus asked, “Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath or not?” Pharisees were silent. Jesus cured. The back end of the […]
Ignatian Spirituality #2
Part II: “16 Things for which I am Grateful to St. Ignatius” by Dennis Hamm, SJ Here is the second bite-sized installment from Dennis’ text for his homily on the feast of Ignatius: Thank you, Ignatius, for providing a positive approach to evil in the world. Rather than operate out of anger or fear and scapegoating […]
Ignatian Spirituality #1
“16 things for which I’m grateful to Ignatius of Loyola” by Dennis Hamm, SJ, Faculty of Theology (emeritus) Creighton University Homily on the Feast of St. Ignatius – July 30, 2016 – Saturday Vigil Mass, St. John’s Parish @ Creighton University St. Ignatius heard that same gospel reading as a young man, along with the voices of […]
Roc Homily – Twenty-First Sunday Ordinary Time 2016
How might we hear this gospel as a catalyst to increase the amount of change going on in our lives so as to be conformed to Christ? And who really likes change? You? I don’t much. Good intentions don’t help us, really. “I need to… I should… I ought to…” pretty much doesn’t work all […]
Roc Homily Prequel #2 – Twenty-First Sunday Ordinary Time 2016
In the meantime… Jesus seems to address disciples and followers by answering the question, “Will only a few be saved?” And his answer resembles what happened earlier in Luke, chapter 4, in the synagogue. There, Jesus applied the ol’ 2by4 to the forehead to get the attention of his countrymen. Effectively he said, “In the time of […]
Roc Homily Prequel – Twenty-First Sunday Ordinary Time 2016
I didn’t work in any word-study this time… So, let me add this curious discovery concerning “enter through the narrow door…” The NRSV translates the Greek, stenos, as narrow in only two instances. Otherwise, it uses “distress.” Funky, right? Here are the sources: **********Numbers 22:26f (NRSV) — 26 Then the angel of the Lord went ahead, and stood […]
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