Listen to the homily here.
Notes:
Notes:
“The new and the
old…”
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We have each seen this in our lives
o Parents:
with your children, don’t you have “new” and “old” clothes
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Your children grow like weeds!
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Think of your baby’s clothes...and then you don’t
have any babies…you probably have some “old” clothes
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Baptismal dress
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Shoes
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But they are always getting “new” clothes
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New or pass down clothes!
Jesus said: “Then
every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like the head
of a household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old.”
Think about the new and old things in our parishes
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People! Babies, little ones, elementary, high
school, adults
o Those
brand new to learn and those who have wisdom
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Our gifts
o Our
rectory! A new and old!
o Our
decisions for our property
o Things
in the parishes
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“Stuff”
o Old
stuff: if you haven’t used it for a year, give it away
o New
stuff: we all need some new stuff: food, water, shelter
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But in our culture
I hope that we never
have new or old…but both
Finally, we can
always grow to be “scribes” following Jesus Christ
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As Catholics we always have new opportunities,
serving, reading, sacraments
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And each of us have been given talents which can
be both old and new
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