Pray and vote and love

Homily
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time B
Year of Faith
4 November 2012
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas
Daily Readings
Audio

1. On this year of faith commitment weekend in the Archdiocese, pray for all trying to learn their faith and respond with greater trust in God
2. Politics will never be perfect.  Yet Catholics have a moral obligation to vote if there is a candidate who can advance the common good.
3. Vote your conscience, which is not your inner voice, but the voice of God deep within you, and his law written on your heart.
4. Jefferson said rights are grounded not in man, but in our creator. True equality is God knowing and loving and willing every human person.
5. The right to life is fundamental. No society increases rights to equality, choice, privacy or opportunity when the right to life is at risk.
6. Archbishop Naumann has asked every Catholic to go to Mass, make a holy hour or offer a rosary on the day of Tuesday's election.  
7. When storms like Sandy happen, as a rule it's good to remember that despite the contingencies of life, life is still worth living
8. Praying, helping, giving defeat evil more than doubting God. God allows evil like the cross only as a means to a greater good. 
9. Ambrose - death is no longer bad, for in Christ it is now the means of our salvation.  Without Christ immortality is a burden not a blessing
10. Hearing and fearing God is the first stage of love. Would be Masters of their own destiny are not receptive to relationship and true love.
11. Takes thousands of rules to be a faithful Christian in real life, but they all flow from the core - love God totally, and your neighbor too.
12. God's ability to focus on you is greater than vice versa.  So use your freedom to surrender all to a love more powerful than you can control.

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