“What will separate us from the love of Christ?”: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

 Listen to the homily here.

Notes:

18^th Sunday in Ordinary Time

“What will separate us from the love of Christ?”

·      A great letter to the Romans by St. Paul

·      As he continues

o   “Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?
No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly
through him who loved us.”

·      I must keep focusing on this, especially when I have moments of nervousness, not knowing the finish line

·      No matter what, we must know of his love, seek to his love, not what we can achieve

And with His love, we heard from Isaiah again:

·      “All you who are thirsty,
come to the water!
You who have no money,
come, receive grain and eat;
Come, without paying and without cost…”

o   Again, this probably makes sense when our lives our comfortable

o   But what if you are literally thirsty?  No food?  No money?  Free?

§  These are different around the world in reality.

§  And of course, Jesus is also showing our spiritual journeys

Finally, the connection of the above: five loaves and two fish

·      Is the crowd fed?  Yes, with a full belly.

·      Is the crowd fed in a different way, too?  Yes, with a chance to see how God shows us the more important lives beyond this place.

·      Body and soul seeking the revolution of redemption.

·      Devil tempted Jesus: “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.” He said in reply, “It is written: ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.’”