Listen to the homily here.
Notes:
Notes:
Follow St. Peter in
our readings today
Gospel of John
·
It’s
“before” the Acts of the Apostles—“after”—flip-flop at Mass
·
I love a
couple of lines:
o Simply
four words: “I am going fishing”
§
Do
any of you say that? I hope
so! You’re in God’s country!
o They
went out to fish (they were fishermen)
o Then
Jesus said, “Children, have you caught anything to eat?”
o That
reply, “No.”
§
Do
any of you fish like this? Yep!
o “Cast the net over the right side of the
boat and you will find something.”
§
And they did!
§
Then they saw it was Jesus.
·
Jesus
forgave Peter from his denial
o “Do you love me?...Feed my lambs…Do you love
me? Tend my lambs…Do you love
me?...Feed my sheep.”
o Forgiveness
of Peter…and he went with courage!
1st
reading in the Acts of the Apostles
·
The apostles
were told by the Sanhedrin, “We
gave you strict orders, did we not, to stop teaching in that name? Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your
teaching and want to bring this man’s blood upon us…”
o
Imagine Jerusalem
o
The apostles
were preaching Jesus Christ…sharing the resurrection of Jesus Christ
o
In the crowds…with people!
·
Peter
said to the apostles, “We
must obey God rather than men.”
As we follow our leader...our shepherd (Bishop Paul Sirba)
and Pope Francis
·
How do we today those that
tell Christians to be only in “private” or “to stop teaching in that name”
or “Christianity in public?”
o
In politics?
o
In our government?
o
In those who have power to
lead without Jesus?
o
Media?
o
Public areas? (Our United States began as Christians!)
·
Christianity is for the
world…again…Christianity is for the world
·
How do we obey God rather
than men?
We have three important answers…pray,
pray, pray.
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