From e5986402f393313a3d9ea4a60b9b5a79ef236ffe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: techpriest_steamdeck Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:17:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] added_7-14_homily --- 2024_homilies.txt | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) diff --git a/2024_homilies.txt b/2024_homilies.txt index d7b158f..5f26002 100644 --- a/2024_homilies.txt +++ b/2024_homilies.txt @@ -1,5 +1,62 @@ 2024 Homilies +7-14 + +He instructed them to take nothing for the journey: + +No car, no credit card, no suitcase, no cellphone. + +/ + +It's good to do this little bit of translation, to understand exactly what Jesus is saying. + +And then it's good to do a little more: + +Jesus is asking them, to do what he already did. + +//// + +When Jesus began his ministry, he started with forty days in the desert. + +He went to the desert, with just the clothes on his back and a walking stick. + +No food, no luggage, no money. + +/ + +He almost died in that desert, that should be clear to us. Forty days without food is no picnic. + +After those forty days, Jesus began his ministry: he didn't go home to resupply: he went to Galilee, living on the kindness of friends and strangers. + +//// + +So Jesus is asking the Apostles, to do as he did, to leave behind worldly possessions, and trust in God completely. + +And he does this again later on, when he sends out the seventy-two in the same way. + +//// + +As we have in other places in the Gospel, there is an explicit rejection of materialism and consumerism by God. + +We find true comfort and security in God, not in houses and cars and keeping up with the Joneses. + +In fact, we see Jesus not only give the example, but again and again recommend voluntary poverty. + +//// + +The question we are faced with today, is how can we become more impoverished? + +Normally, I'd like to give some examples to have a place to start, but in this case, it's something you need to work out with God. + +God called St Francis of Assissi to give up everything. + +He called St Elizabeth of Hungary to use her great wealth to build houses for religious orders, and fund charitable works, all while living a very simple life when out of the public eye. + +/ + +Make no mistake, God will never call you to live a life of comfort and security, He will call you to give everything away in one way or another, so that you may learn to trust completely, in Him. + + 6-23 This passage of the Gospel is one that makes it clear, that the followers of Christ, should be bold.