Presider: Fr.
John Puodziunas,
OFM
Parish:
Assumption BVM Province
Choir:
St. Andrews
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GOSPEL AND HOMILY
THE
LORD BE WITH YOU.
AND WITH YOUR
SPIRIT.
A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK.
GLORY TO YOU O LORD
AS JESUS WAS SETTING OUT ON A JOURNEY A
MAN RAN UP, KNELT DOWN BEFORE HIM AND ASKED HIM
GOOD TEACHER, WHAT MUST I DO TO INHERIT ETERNAL
LIFE? JESUS ANSWERED HIM WHY DO YOU
CALL ME GOOD? NO ONE IS GOOD BUT
GOD ALONE. YOU
KNOW THE COMMANDMENTS. YOU SHALL NOT
KILL, YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT
BEAR FALSE WITNESS YOU SHALL NOT DEFRAUD HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR
MOTHER HE REPLIED AND SAID TO JESUS, TEACHER ALL OF THESE I HAVE OBSERVED FROM MY YOUTH JESUS LOOKING AT HIM, LOVED HIM AND SAID TO HIM YOU ARE LACKING IN ONE THING GO,
SELL WHAT YOU HAVE AND GIVE TO THE POOR AND YOU WILL HAVE TREASURE IN
HEAVEN THEN COME FOLLOW ME AT THAT STATEMENT
HIS FACE FELL AND HE
WENT AWAY
SAD FOR HE HAD MANY POSSESSIONS. JESUS LOOKED
AROUND AND SAID TO THE DISCIPLES HOW
HARD IT IS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE WEALTH TO
ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THE DISCIPLES WERE AMAZED AT HIS WORDS. SO JESUS SAID TO THEM IN REPLY CHILDREN HOW HARD IT IS TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD. IT IS EASIER FOR A
CAMEL TO
PASS THROUGH THE
EYE OF A NEEDLE THAN FOR ONE WHO IS
RICH TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD THEY WERE EXCEEDINGLY ASTONISHED AND SAID AMONG THEMSELVES, THEN WHO CAN BE SAVED? JESUS LOOKED AT THEM AND SAID FOR HUMAN BEINGS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE BUT NOT FOR GOD. ALL
THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOR GOD.
THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD.
PRAISE TO YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST
THE MAN WHO APPROACHES JESUS WAS DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT AND SO IT SEEMS. HE NOT ONLY KNOW THE TEN COMMANDMENTS HE CONFESSED TO LIVING THEM, FROM HIS YOUTH IT SEEMS
TO BE THE RIGHT THING TO DO. HE RECOGNIZES JESUS AS TEACHER AND EVEN KNEELS AT SHOWS HIM HOMAGE AND WHEN ASKED SAYS ALL I
WANT TO INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE. HE WAS DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT AND
YET HE
GOES AWAY SAD HIS FACE FELL WE ARE TOLD BUT
DON'T WE ALSO
FEEL AT
TIMES THAT WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT. RIGHT IN TERMS OF CHURCH,
FAITH, GOSPEL. RIGHT IN OUR FAMILIES, SIBLINGS, OUR CHILDREN RIGHT IN THE
WORLD, RIGHT WITH OUR
JOB RIGHT WITH EVERYTHING AND STILL WE FEEL AT TIMES SAD HOW IS IT THAT WE CAN TO KNOW THIS JOY THAT THE GOSPEL SPEAKS OF? HOW IS IT THAT WE CAN BE HAPPY CHRISTIANS AS
POPE FRANCIS CALLS US TO BE IN ADDRESSING THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD LAST FEBRAURY POPE FRANCIS TOLD THEM, HAVE THE COURAGE TO BE HAPPY. HE DIDN'T JUST
SAY GO OUT THERE AND BE HAPPY, EVERYBODY SAYS THAT ALL I WANT TO DO IS BE HAPPY. HE SAYS HAVE THE COURAGE TO BE HAPPY.
DO NOT JUST
LIVE FOR THE
MOMENT. DO NOT SEEK ONLY REWARD OF
TODAY BUT LIVE WITH YOUR
GAZE SET ON THAT WHAT YOU DO NOT YET KNOW THAT WHICH IS GOD'S PROMISE OF EVER LASTING LIFE.
TURN FROM THE
SIMPLE PLEASURE OF POSSESSION. TURN FROM THE PROMISE OF THIS PASSING WORLD THAT THEY WILL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING TO FEEL SUCCESSFUL FOR WITH
SUCCESS AND POSSESSION WE TEND TO
THINK THAT WE HAVE EVERYTHING NOW AND STILL WE ARE WEARY AND SAD THE HOLY FATHER SAYS,
LOOK TO SEE GOD IN THE POOR, IN THE HUNGRY AND THE STRANGER AND
SHARE YOUR LIFE WITH THEM. BRING YOUR EXPERIENCE TO THEM AND YOU RECEIVE THEIR EXPERIENCE THEN YOU WILL KNOW HAPPINESS. THESE THINGS TAKE COURAGE. JESUS SEEMS TO LEAVE THE RICH, YOUNG MAN WITH A SIMILAR RESPONSE GO HE SAYS, SELL EVERYTHING GIVE TO THE POOR, KNOW THAT YOUR TREASURE IS NOT HERE BUT IN HEAVEN AND THEN YOU WILL KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO FOLLOW ME. BUT HE CAN'T
DO IT JUST CAN'T DO IT.
IT'S TOO HARD. HE WALKS AWAY SAD. HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS POSSESSIONS NOWHERE IN THE SCRIPTURES
DOES IT SAY POSSESSIONS ARE
BAD,
EVIL, SINFUL. HIS DIFFICULTY HAS THAT HIS POSSESSIONS POSSESSED HIM THEY BECAME HIS GOD AND HE
WANTED TO
CLUTCH ON TO THEM COULDN'T
LET GO AND SO HE WALKED AWAY SAD BY BROTHERS AND
SISTERS LET US NOT BE POSSESSED WITH THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, THE WEALTH THAT IS PROMISES, THE
POWER THAT IT TELLS US ITS SHARING WITH US. LET US NOT BE POSSESSED WITH THE THINGS OF HATRED OR JEALOUSLY, THINGS OF EVIL FOR THERE WE WILL NOT FIND HAPPINESS WE WILL
WALK AROUND SAID LET US LIVE WITHOUT GRASPING. LET US
OPEN OUR HANDS AND OPEN OUR HEARTS AND OPEN OUR LIVES TO RECEIVE THE GENEROUS
GIFT OF OUR LORD GOD IN OUR LIVES AND LET GOD BE OUR GOD, LET GOD POSSESS US, NOT THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD AND THEN WE WILL KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HAPPY AND WE WILL HAVE DONE MANY GOOD THINGS BUT WE WILL WALK WITH JOY KNOWING THAT THIS IS ALL OF GOD
- published: 10 Oct 2015
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