How much time for this virus vs. eternity with God?: 5th Sunday in Easter Season

Listen to the homily here.

Notes:

5^th Sunday in Easter

Happy Mothers’ Day

Fascinating story of time

·      There was a bird that lived in a nest on the bottom of the Mount Everest

·      He flew up to the top of Mount Everest and chiseled a rock on the summit for 30 seconds

·      The bird flew back to the nest and stayed there for 10,000 years

·      It then went back up to that rock again, thirty seconds to chisel it again, for another 10,000 years again

·      If this bird had enough time, Mount Everest would be flattened

·      Think about that one, which, at least, fascinates my brain

Now, let’s bring this story back into the Scriptures

·      Remember where St. Peter was called “the Rock”?  (No, not the nickname “the Rock” by Dwayne Johnson!)

·      Matthew 16:18

o   “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church…”

·      And then St. Peter, who was called the Rock, that Jesus built his Church wrote in our 2^nd reading:

o   “Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings
but chosen and precious in the sight of God,
and, like living stones,
let yourselves be built into a spiritual house
to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”

§  “Therefore, its value is for you who have faith…”

o   “…but for those without faith

o   “The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone,
and
A stone that will make people stumble,
and a rock that will make them fall.
They stumble by disobeying the word, as is their destiny.”

Finally, that analogy with that bird…

·      That story was certainly not perfect, especially that one bird simply could not be alive for billions of years and decimate Mount Everest

·      But let’s move that, not from that story, but the reality, of the Rock that Jesus Christ built his Church…and not just in our time and space, but for eternity