Tuesday, September 1, 2015

September 1 - Homily for Today

There is just something attractive and reassuring when someone speaks with authority. We know this on a secular level: when the “experts” in a given area speak, we tend to sit up and listen. But even these experts leave us wanting a bit – we say to ourselves: “This sounds right, but it is only as up-to-date as today’s date: it may, theoretically, change by tomorrow.”

However, with Jesus, it was different: when people listened to him they got the sense that what he was saying would not change tomorrow, or ever; and what he is saying was true yesterday as well: he spoke the “real deal.” And so they were astonished at his teaching: it was not only intellectually satisfying, but it also moved hearts to a whole change of course of action. It was pretty evident that this man was from God; even the unclean spirits knew and proclaimed this.

One truth that Jesus spoke over and over again is that he will come again as judge of men’s actions, and that we had better be prepared for such a reckoning. For those in line with the truths that he taught and modeled things would go easy; for those who chose rather their own truths and man-made-idols things would not go so well. The time for change, then, is now! We each have promises and vows to keep, loved ones to care for, rules to follow and preaching that must be put into practice – today – so that we will be ready when the time of rendering account comes.


The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The Lord is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid?

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