(Listen to this homily here).
Welcome to Mass again on day number three of Totus
Tuus! And it looks like you have
new strings today! What color did
we get? Purple. And who brought them to you? A
moose with juice! Really? I didn’t know we had moose walking
around here—and with juice?
So
what does the color purple remind us of?
A king. And which king do we remember. Jesus. Yep—that’s always a right answer here
in Church!
And
what was the third Sorrowful Mystery we learned about this morning? The
crowning of thorns. Yes. You know, the soldiers were making fun
of Jesus by calling him a king and they gave him a crown of thorns that hurt
him. But all along, Jesus was really
the King of the world!
Now
a couple of thoughts for our readings today. Remember what happened in the readings yesterday? Moses led the people through the Red
Sea—on dry land! Remember, we
pretended our seminarian Beau led us through Rainy Lake? So the Israelites make it through the
Red Sea safe and sound. And do you
know one of the first things they do on the other side? They complain! They
complained after seeing how powerful God was! A great lesson for us—we should never complain.
Now
God answered the Israelites’ complaint by giving them some special food. Do you remember what it was? It was called bread from heaven…manna. I don’t know if you knew this, but did you know they had
several cool recipes for the manna?
They made ba-manna bread. And mannacotti. Come on, those are supposed to be
funny!
Where
do we receive special bread from heaven?
When we go to Church!
Indeed—every time we come to Mass God gives us Bread from heaven—Jesus’
body and blood.
As
we come to Mass today, let’s remember not to complain, because God has given us
so much. More than anything else,
he feeds us with Jesus’ body and blood.
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