Well, good evening everyone. It’s great to be here with you tonight. For those of you may not know me, my name is Father John. I come in here usually during holiday times. I’m originally from the East coast. By currently I teach high school out in the West Coast and in the great city of San Francisco, and it was something to really leave that weather to come here tonight.
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Homily – 4th Sunday of Advent
We come to the fourth Sunday of Advent, anticipating that in a matter of two days we will begin the celebrations of the great Feast of Christmas. The feast of the incarnation. And what is presented to us today is this image of Mary. Mary, who has been had an encounter with the angel Gabriel, and who basically lays out before her God’s plan that she should become the mother of the Son of God.
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Once again, it’s a great grace to be able to welcome everyone to Saint Charles this morning. Thank you for your prayer in your presence this morning. Quick question. Are there any middle children in the community this morning? Where are the middle children? Okay. A few there are a few milder. We suffer. Middle children are the forgotten child. We get the leftovers.
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You might recall a scene that occurred in Mark’s Gospel when Jesus was at Assyria, and he asked the disciples who they thought he was. And you remember that the disciples first responded that he was one of the prophets. Then others said he was John the Baptist. And then finally Peter responds and says, you are the Son of God, the Messiah.
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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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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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We listen to a lengthy selection from the gospel of Mark, and it comes with a young man coming up to Jesus and basically asking, what must I do to be saved? And Jesus then gives him the commandments as we have come to know them. And the young man responds and says, well, I have done all of those things.
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