Have we each had the experience of just wanting to say would just come to the point? Stop all the words, just tell me what you want. Have we all had one of those moments? And I’m willing to bet if you were to tell the truth, you would say that after listening to many homilies, you just want to say, Father, just get to the point.
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Homily – 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Deacon Kevin McCormack:
It is truly a great privilege for me to come back to Saint Charles and to be with you all. I thank Father immensely for trusting me with his congregation, and I just like traveling. I’m like the itinerant preacher sometimes.
It’s really great. I’m from Lynbrook. That’s my home parish – I’m a Rockville Center deacon canonically but everything else in my life, I’m a Brooklyn deacon, so it’s really kind of cool to be here. Now, today I get to ask you a question that I’m betting on your bingo card today was not there. No one thought maybe when I go to church, I’ll be asked, What do you think it would be like to know you’re a leper?
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So I have a favorite four letter F word. No, I don’t know where your minds went, but my favorite word is free. Any time I hear the words free, like it’s really a good thing. I like free. However, if a friend calls and says it’s been a long time, let’s go out to lunch. My treat. Sometimes I think, this is too good to be true.
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Great to be with you again. I came here and I think it was freezing. And then it became like 60 degrees and then it was like raining all day. So I got a little bit of everything here. There’s during this week and I was also able to get a little bit of everyone, everyone in who I saw this past week is a very eventful week, but we get to cap it off with a baptism of good friends of mine, Janette and Alex’s brand new baby, Eli.
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Good morning, everyone. Can you hear me okay with this microphone? Does it sound all right or no? How about in the back? Yes. Now. Okay, I’m getting mostly thumbs up, so I’ll go with that. All right, great. So it’s great to be back in Brooklyn Heights. I’m Father John, for those who might forgot who I was or meet me for the first time, I teach out in San Francisco.
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The selection of today’s Gospel is from the early part of John’s gospel, and it begins with two disciples who were walking with John the Baptist, and John the Baptist sees Jesus walking and he points to him and he says, Behold the LAMB of God.
Now, one might wonder, why would he use that phrase? Well, I think part of it is understanding the gospel of John. The Gospel of John is written probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 to 110 A.D. But John writes something before that, which is of critical importance in being able to understand John’s gospel, and that is the Book of Revelation, which is a vision that John has as he’s on one of the islands, the island of Patmos.
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The celebration of the Epiphany is really all about traditions. We have different traditions that we celebrate today. So in many cultures, today would be Three Kings Day, really the day of gift giving. But on this day, the church also announces for us the feasts that are approaching. And so listen attentively. Know my dearest brothers and sisters by the gift of God’s mercy, as we have rejoiced at the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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