{"id":2275,"date":"2016-09-03T18:16:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T07:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stbridgetsgreythorn.org.au\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2016-09-03T18:16:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T07:16:16","slug":"homily-for-23rd-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/homily-for-23rd-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Homily for 23rd Sunday in Ordinary time\u2013 Year C"},"content":{"rendered":"

23 rd Sunday in Ordinary \u2013 Year C<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

September 4, 2016<\/p>\n

Homily<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • The gospel today (Luke 14:25-33) rubs us up the wrong way.<\/li>\n
  • Especially on Father\u2019s day, it\u2019s hardly attractive to think of families turning on one another. Worse, \u2018hating\u2019 one another.<\/li>\n
  • Of course families are good but, in an age where millions of people are displaced by war; made refugees and even where families collapse through addiction, mental illness and poverty, Christian families are called to respond.<\/li>\n
  • Following Jesus is bigger than the family as the Refugee Assistant Group have shown us.<\/li>\n
  • We can cocoon ourselves in families like silk worms \u2013 spinning a safe net around our own interests and advancement and opportunity in life.<\/li>\n
  • It is all very well to advance the families fortune but what about community?<\/li>\n
  • Last week Mark Zuckerberg \u2013 the Facebook billionaire met Pope Francis. No doubt the Pope reminded him that, with family fortune, comes a wider commitment to God\u2019s poor people, many of whom live precious short lives and cannot even enjoy a glass of clean water?<\/li>\n
  • So, what looks like a crazy proposition about \u2018hating family\u2019, when given a context, challenges you and me to live outside the cocoons of income, prestige cars; mansions and luxury travel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    • The second part of the gospel is not unrelated.<\/li>\n
    • It also sets a condition to being a Christian. Both stories are about thinking well before making a decision, whether to build or go to war?<\/li>\n
    • There are two stories but only one point, namely, it is a serious moment when we become a Christian.<\/li>\n
    • For too many people today, becoming a Christian is not a personal choice at all; neither is it a decision for life. It is purely cultural.<\/li>\n
    • Anyone who is born an Australian is an Australian or anyone born a Brazilian is a Brazilian.<\/li>\n
    • We do not have to choose. This is how we are born and this is the way we will die.<\/li>\n
    • But being a Christian is a decision to live a Christian way of life.<\/li>\n
    • This is the most important condition to being a disciple. Christians by choice not birth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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