Thursday, October 8, 2015

October 8 - Homily for Today

Yesterday’s gospel (in the ordinary readings of the day) on the Lord’s prayer, and today’s on the added emphasis on persistence should be enough for us to have absolute trust in God – who already knows our needs before we ask him – but who still insists that we “go through the motion” of asking anyway! The family relationship that he wants with us is not to be the “why can’t you read my mind” kind of dysfunctional family interacting. He wants us to confidently, trustingly and lovingly ask for what we think we need, and if it is truly what we do need, we will get it. The “password” for this type of healthy family life is this: “if it be your will!” “I think I need this, Father, but what do you think, and in the end I choose what you want instead of what I might want: your will be done.”

The first reading today warns of what happens to those who count themselves out of God’s family and insist on their own everything: they will end up in a place of unquenchable fire. The just, on the other hand, the ones who are in right relationship with God – knowing they are his children, his servants in building a unique and wonderful kingdom - will be safe in a land prepared for them of cool refreshing waters, and green and luscious meadows.

Where we want to end up depends on our day-to-day decisions: either we ask God for what he wants for us, or we demand what we want – and take our chances!


Open our hearts, O Lord, to listen to the words of your Son.

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