Hear to Heaven

Hear to Heaven

By Robert KilnerReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
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Hear to Heaven episodes

  • An Other Self, 11-12-2020
    FIRST READING
    Phlm 7-20
    Have him back, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother, beloved especially to me.
    A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to Philemon
    Beloved:
    I have experienced much joy and encouragement from your love,
    because the hearts of the holy ones
    have been refreshed by you, brother.
    Therefore, although I have the full right in Christ
    to order you to do what is proper,
    I rather urge you out of love,
    being as I am, Paul, an old man,
    and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus.
    I urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus,
    whose father I have become in my imprisonment,
    who was once useless to you but is now useful to both you and me.
    I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you.
    I should have liked to retain him for myself,
    so that he might serve me on your behalf
    in my imprisonment for the Gospel,
    but I did not want to do anything without your consent,
    so that the good you do might not be forced but voluntary.
    Perhaps this is why he was away from you for a while,
    that you might have him back forever,
    no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother,
    beloved especially to me, but even more so to you,
    as a man and in the Lord.
    So if you regard me as a partner, welcome him as you would me.
    And if he has done you any injustice
    or owes you anything, charge it to me.
    I, Paul, write this in my own hand: I will pay.
    May I not tell you that you owe me your very self.
    Yes, brother, may I profit from you in the Lord.
    Refresh my heart in Christ.
    3 min
  • Serviam! “I Will Serve!”, 11-10-2020
    Homily Given at the Heights School. Luke 17:7-10. Jesus said to the Apostles: “Who among you would say to your servant who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here immediately and take your place at table’?
    Would he not rather say to him, 'Prepare something for me to eat. Put on your apron and wait on me while I eat and drink. You may eat and drink when I am finished'?
    Is he grateful to that servant because he did what was commanded?
    So should it be with you. When you have done all you have been commanded, say, 'We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.'"
    4 min
  • Zeal for God’s Presence, 11-09-2020
    John 2: 13-22 Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
    He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money-changers seated there.
    He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, "Take these out of here, and stop making my Father's house a marketplace."
    His disciples recalled the words of scripture, "Zeal for your house will consume me."
    At this the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign can you show us for doing this?"
    Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up."
    The Jews said, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?"
    But he was speaking about the temple of his body.
    Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.
    5 min
  • Save A Soul, Enough Said, 10-30-2020
    Luke 14:1-6. On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully.
    In front of him there was a man suffering from dropsy.
    Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and Pharisees in reply, asking, "Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath or not?"
    But they kept silent; so he took the man and, after he had healed him, dismissed him.
    Then he said to them, "Who among you, if your son or ox falls into a cistern, would not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?"
    But they were unable to answer his question.
    4 min
  • I Have No King But Christ, 10-18-2020
    Homily for The 29th Sunday in ordinary time. Mt 22: 15-21. The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap him in speech.
    They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. And you are not concerned with anyone's opinion, for you do not regard a person's status.
    Tell us, then, what is your opinion: Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?"
    Knowing their malice, Jesus said, "Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?
    Show me the coin that pays the census tax." Then they handed him the Roman coin.
    He said to them, "Whose image is this and whose inscription?"
    They replied, "Caesar's." At that he said to them, "Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God."
    8 min
  • Prepare for the Wedding Feast, 10-11-2020

    Last Week's recording of Father Larry Swink's homily had some technical issues. Here is a link to the original video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMF56mj_KQg

    Today’s Gospel: Matt 22:1-14. Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parables saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come. A second time he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those invited: "Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast."' Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business. The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, 'The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come. Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find.' The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to meet the guests he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment. He said to him, 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?' But he was reduced to silence. Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.' Many are invited, but few are chosen."

    14 min

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