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Like Christ, we will hear the words "Physician, heal yourself!" He dies and rises in us.
Homily for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered in St Peter Chanel Church, Miriam Vale, Qld.
"The king’s leading men spoke to the king. ‘Let Jeremiah be put to death: he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city, and all the people too, by talking like this. The fellow does not have the welfare of this people at heart so much as its ruin.’ ‘He is in your hands as you know,’ King Zedekiah answered ‘for the king is powerless against you.’ So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the well of Prince Malchiah in the Court of the Guard, letting him down with ropes. There was no water in the well, only mud, and into the mud Jeremiah sank." (cf. Jer 28).
"I waited, I waited for the Lord and he stooped down to me; he heard my cry. Lord, come to my aid! He drew me from the deadly pit, from the miry clay. He set my feet upon a rock and made my footsteps firm." (Ps 40).
"With so many witnesses in a great cloud on every side of us, we too, then, should throw off everything that hinders us, especially the sin that clings so easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started... for the sake of the joy which was still in the future, he endured the cross, disregarding the shamefulness of it, and from now on has taken his place at the right of God’s throne. Think of the way he stood such opposition from sinners and then you will not give up for want of courage. In the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of death." (cf. Heb 12:1-4).
"Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and how great is my distress till it is over...!'" (cf. Lk 12:49-53).
Artwork: "Jeremiah" in the Sistine Chapel, (Michaelangelo, 1508-12).
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By Ashwin Emmanuel AcharyaHomily for the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, delivered in St Peter Chanel Church, Miriam Vale, Qld.
"The king’s leading men spoke to the king. ‘Let Jeremiah be put to death: he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city, and all the people too, by talking like this. The fellow does not have the welfare of this people at heart so much as its ruin.’ ‘He is in your hands as you know,’ King Zedekiah answered ‘for the king is powerless against you.’ So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the well of Prince Malchiah in the Court of the Guard, letting him down with ropes. There was no water in the well, only mud, and into the mud Jeremiah sank." (cf. Jer 28).
"I waited, I waited for the Lord and he stooped down to me; he heard my cry. Lord, come to my aid! He drew me from the deadly pit, from the miry clay. He set my feet upon a rock and made my footsteps firm." (Ps 40).
"With so many witnesses in a great cloud on every side of us, we too, then, should throw off everything that hinders us, especially the sin that clings so easily, and keep running steadily in the race we have started... for the sake of the joy which was still in the future, he endured the cross, disregarding the shamefulness of it, and from now on has taken his place at the right of God’s throne. Think of the way he stood such opposition from sinners and then you will not give up for want of courage. In the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of death." (cf. Heb 12:1-4).
"Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and how great is my distress till it is over...!'" (cf. Lk 12:49-53).
Artwork: "Jeremiah" in the Sistine Chapel, (Michaelangelo, 1508-12).