A very quick question. You have heard me ask you this before. Who believes in coincidence? Who believes that everything is purposeful?
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Homily – 28th Sunday Ordinary Time
How many of us find today’s gospel encounter with Jesus to be really frightening?
Do we really identify with this rich young man, or what? You know, it is very complicated for us because, he has notes and comments everywhere in the scriptures. He being this young man, we encounter him over and over again in Scripture, and we encounter him in ourselves every day. It is as if we are writing a personal journal entry when we hear today’s gospel parable.
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As you know, I believe that each and every one of us has a superpower given to us by God. Now, as many different people as are gathered here today, that’s the number of superpowers we have in the congregation. And it is very important for us to listen to the Holy Spirit so that we know which gift is ours to use for the building up of the Kingdom of God.
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If I were to ask you, and I am about to, who has heard of Saint Damien of Molokai? Who has heard of Saint Damien? Raise your hands, please. Damien of Molokai. Okay. Some of you know the great missionary saint of the Hawaiian Islands, who ministered to the lepers, at the lepers and lepers are those members of the community who have Hansen’s disease.
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Several months ago, I shared with you my superpower. Who remembers what my superpower is?
Okay. Wow. My superpower is that I can sleep anywhere, at any time. I am a great sleeper. So in light of today’s gospel, I thought I would share my other superpower. And that is, I can pick the wrong line just standing in any department store, supermarket or drug store. I will always be in the wrong line. I’ve even moved from a line that was moving quicker to get into a line that slowed down.
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How many of us right now are suffering from seasonal allergies? And some days are worse than other days. Right. So the other day I was on the subway going to the chancellery, and I had to sneeze. That when I sneeze, everybody knows I am one of those very loud sneezes. And this woman looked at me like I had just contaminated the whole train.
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Have we all ever delivered an ultimatum? You know we’re going to draw the line in the sand. Either this or that. Now, in my experience, ultimatums do not work very well. For example, I have a little two year old great niece. Do we have two year olds in our lives? Are we familiar with this concept? Have we ever given a two year old an ultimatum?
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