It’s the 1st Sunday of Advent (Year B). What are we watching for? What are we looking for?
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Todos los Santos
Hoy celebramos la Solemnidad de Todos los Santos. A menudo centramos nuestra atención en los horribles martirios y milagros inspiradores de los santos. Eso es justo, ya que nuestro proceso para canonizar a los santos requiere milagros, pero ¿qué nos enseña la liturgia de hoy?
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All Saints
Today, we celebrate the Solemnity of All Saints. We often focus our attention on the Saints’ awful martyrdoms and inspiring miracles. That’s fair, since our process for canonizing Saints requires verifiable miracles, but what does today’s liturgy teach us? Who and what are saints?
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Faithful Citizenship
I received a reprimand because this homily addresses sensitive subjects, so I am not publicizing this via social media. I am persisting it here “for the record,” since I did preach it that Saturday night. I often meditate and preach about the importance of not pretending to be perfect, and being willing to fall and get up again, and I am posting this here in that spirit.
Consider this fair warning that the homily was deemed sufficiently inappropriate that Father preached Sunday morning. I had another commitment after mass that night, and couldn’t prepare another homily. Ok, that’s true, but I confess that mostly my pride got in the way. I could have left the event early, gotten up early Sunday, or simply spoken off the cuff, and that’s what I’ll do the next time my pastor objects to a homily.
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La fiesta está preparada
XXVIII Domingo ordinario Lectionary: 14
La eterna fiesta del cordero está lista para nosotros. ¿Somos dignos?
No. No somos dignos. No hemos hecho nada para merecer una invitación a este banquete. No hemos hecho nada para merecer recibir el cuerpo de Cristo en la Eucaristía. No hemos hecho nada para ser invitados al banquete eterno en el cielo. No solo eso, sino que no hay nada que podamos hacer para ser dignos.
Pero si. Somos dignos. Somos dignos porque el rey nos ha invitado. El rey decide quién es digno y el rey nos ha invitado. El rey no solo nos ha invitado, sino que también nos ha proporcionado ropa para vestir. La cena está lista. La ropa está lista. Todo lo que tenemos que hacer es ponernos la ropa y unirnos a la fiesta.
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