Sunday, January 24, 2010

we've got to get out there

Homily
Thursday of the 3rd Week of Ordinary Time
Memorial of Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor
28 January 2010

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Jesus is clear. If we are a customer, but not a salesman, our faith is worthless. We must fulfill the promise of our Confirmation in the faith. If we are only trying to work God's will into the plans we have for our lives, then what little we know of God's will shall be taken away from us. If we are sharing the faith, hope and love that have been poured into our hearts, if we are magnifying the Lord by the way in which we live our lives, then our lives will get bigger and bigger and bigger. If we are confessing our sins, and flooding our lives with the light of the Gospel, then our sins will surely lose their power over us. If we are trying to place our lives within the mystery of God's will for us, then we will arrive at the self-forgetfulness that characterizes true love. But if we measure what we give, we will receive less and less. If our lives are controlled by fear and not by love, what little love we have will grow cold. We know deep down if we are living a measured life, a life of fear, a life of secrecy, a life that is getting smaller. Let us beg the Lord to move us through today's Eucharist to give without counting the cost, to love beyond reason, to bring light to those areas of our lives shrouded in darkness, and to allow our lives to get bigger and bigger and bigger, until they arrive at the promise of eternal life. +m

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