diff --git a/2024_homilies.txt b/2024_homilies.txt index 06bac55..66965ce 100644 --- a/2024_homilies.txt +++ b/2024_homilies.txt @@ -1,5 +1,57 @@ 2024 Homilies +3-10 +Satan loves the darkness. + +It is where he works. + +His tools are lies, deceit, and trickery; things that are only effective in darkness. + +//// + +In our Gospel, Jesus uses the images of light and darkness to show the reality of our world. + +Darkness is not something created, it comes about as an absence of light. + +Darkness happens when a creature withdraws from God: pushing the light away, brings about darkness. + +//// + +We see how this works in our own lives. + +We were made to be communal creatures, connected to God and to each other. + +When we withdraw from those relationships, things break apart. + +Secrets divide us, depression grows through isolation, aggression heightens with discord. + +Sin begins with disunity. + +//// + +When God enters into our lives, it is as light shining in the darkness. + +Secrets are exposed, lies are uncovered, and the difficult work of healing broken relationships, begins. + +/ + +Again, we have seen this in our own lives. + +Those little feelings that something isn't right, the anxiety that comes creeping in as the euphoria of sin wears away. + +That's God speaking to us, calling us to leave the darkness, and enter the light. + +/ + +To rekindle that relationship with Him. + +God gives us perfect and complete attention at all times, and we begin to enter the light, by giving some of our attention back. + +At mass, in confession, daily prayer, reading the scriptures, acts of service, learning about our faith. + +In all those ways, we live in the light. + + 3-03 1. The temple was built on a mountain.