Homily
Saturday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time IA
+Martin of Tours
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas
Veterans Day
11 November 2017
Teamwork. Unity. Communion. It is perhaps the most convincing transcendental. And perhaps the most lacking and most needed.
St. Paul introduces his team in today's reading. I wonder how this year's Koinonia team stacked up with St. Paul's group of all-stars. If you went head to head on proclaiming the mysteries of Christ, who would win? Well, you know me. I'm competitive. I would want you guys . . us, rather, to win! Why not? Who says St. Paul is always and forever the GOAT? Is there a rule that we can't pass him in zeal?
Competition for holiness, and for loving God and glorifying Him, is worthy and contagious. So is teamwork and unity. People are always looking for that deepest and most powerful unity that produces the greatest love, the greatest life, and the greatest fruitfulness and joy. There are powerful forces always trying to destroy unity. There are more powerful forces that create it, if only we put our trust in them.
Forces like the grace and mercy of today's Eucharist, the most powerful and unifying force ever given to man. The Eucharist, the source and summit of the Church's Koinonia. It is right and good that the review of this year's Koinonia is centered here.
Because we are here we have the chance for the deepest and most lasting unity. The unity that the hearts of all students at KU were made for. A unity that is the GOAT. Do you have the faith now to live that unity, and dare to increase it, outside the parameters of this year's retreat.
Teamwork. Unity, Communion. This is perhaps the greatest transcendental because unlike truth, and goodness and beauty, unity more immediately involves getting to know and trusting the person next to us, made in the image and likeness of God.
I dare you to not retire from Koinonia, but to double down on it, from this point forward. Amen.
Saturday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time IA
+Martin of Tours
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas
Veterans Day
11 November 2017
Teamwork. Unity. Communion. It is perhaps the most convincing transcendental. And perhaps the most lacking and most needed.
St. Paul introduces his team in today's reading. I wonder how this year's Koinonia team stacked up with St. Paul's group of all-stars. If you went head to head on proclaiming the mysteries of Christ, who would win? Well, you know me. I'm competitive. I would want you guys . . us, rather, to win! Why not? Who says St. Paul is always and forever the GOAT? Is there a rule that we can't pass him in zeal?
Competition for holiness, and for loving God and glorifying Him, is worthy and contagious. So is teamwork and unity. People are always looking for that deepest and most powerful unity that produces the greatest love, the greatest life, and the greatest fruitfulness and joy. There are powerful forces always trying to destroy unity. There are more powerful forces that create it, if only we put our trust in them.
Forces like the grace and mercy of today's Eucharist, the most powerful and unifying force ever given to man. The Eucharist, the source and summit of the Church's Koinonia. It is right and good that the review of this year's Koinonia is centered here.
Because we are here we have the chance for the deepest and most lasting unity. The unity that the hearts of all students at KU were made for. A unity that is the GOAT. Do you have the faith now to live that unity, and dare to increase it, outside the parameters of this year's retreat.
Teamwork. Unity, Communion. This is perhaps the greatest transcendental because unlike truth, and goodness and beauty, unity more immediately involves getting to know and trusting the person next to us, made in the image and likeness of God.
I dare you to not retire from Koinonia, but to double down on it, from this point forward. Amen.
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