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Good News #186 080925: Exploring Faith and Tradition · Catholic Spirit Radio

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  Welcome to Good News on Catholic Spirit Radio, a program for teens and almost
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  teens to better understand that the gospel of Jesus Christ is relevant in their
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  lives, and it's a place where your questions about faith and religion can be answered.
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  And now, here's your host, Deacon Al.
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  Good evening, and welcome to Good News. I am Deacon Al Lundy,
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  permanent deacon here in the Peoria Diocese, welcoming you to Catholic Spirit
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  Radio. Hopefully, you're a regular listener.
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  on your email, and we will be glad to take your question on the air.
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  A question that I've been getting a lot lately since we have coming up on this
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  coming Friday is the assumption of the Virgin Mary.
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  And a lot of people seem curious as to, was she assumed alive or had she died and was then assumed?
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  And my thought about that is, who cares? I don't see what difference it makes.
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  Assumed into heaven is assumed into heaven. It's a good thing.
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  And it doesn't happen to everybody. It's happened to a couple of people in Scripture.
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  Mary's event is not in Scripture. We have it through the oral traditions of the church.
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  This is what has been told down the ages from the apostles who were present on down to us.
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  But again, I keep falling back to, does it really matter?
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  And if you're just curious about it, the church really has no stand.
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  The church doesn't say, yes, it was assumed after she died or she was assumed
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  before she died. The church makes no decision on that because we don't have
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  any concrete evidence other than the oral tradition.
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  So it's left to each person to decide for themselves, and there's no real right or wrong.
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  The church just expects you to think about it with intellect,
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  intelligence, and with love.
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  What would be, if God is love, what would be the kindest thing to do?
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  But also from an intellect standpoint, what makes sense liturgically and scripturally
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  as to the state of Mary when she was assumed? And my opinion is she was alive.
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  Now, that doesn't mean she was up and moving around and fully healthy,
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  but it means that she was alive at the time.
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  And the reason I say this is what causes death? Sin.
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  Death is the result of sin. Adam and Eve were meant to live forever.
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  They had what was called the preternatural gifts, and among those was immortality.
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  And they had that because when God created them, they were filled with grace.
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  They already had at their creation the salvific graces from God.
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  So, if they were meant to be immortal because they had no sin,
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  well, then wasn't Mary immortal because she was created with no sin.
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  She was just created differently, not from the soil, but from human parents.
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  But if God can create someone without sin, and we believe that Mary was created
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  without sin, there'd be no reason or no cause for her death.
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  So, my opinion is, if the church is right, and I believe they are,
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  about Mary being sinless, then it would make sense that she was assumed without the cause of death.
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  So, that's where I stand on it. You might have a different opinion.
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  That's okay, as long as you believe that she was assumed into heaven, body and soul.
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  No remains were left behind, which would make sense because if she died sinless.
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  Her body would not corrupt.
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  Well, if her body didn't corrupt, certainly chances are good it could have been
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  found by now, but they find no such marker, no such evidence.
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  So I'm going with the fact that Mary had the same preternatural gifts given
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  to Adam and Eve at their creation, which they lost and lost for us once they sinned.
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  But Mary, we have no evidence of Mary ever sinning.
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  There's nothing in Scripture that says Mary ever sinned.
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  She shows other signs of the other preternatural gifts, such as a full knowledge
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  of God. Mary certainly had that.
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  Her purity certainly had that, and that is also one of the characteristics of
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  Adam and Eve was sexual purity.
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  And so, my opinion, Mary was assumed while she was still alive.
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  You're welcome to have your own opinion, but just make sure that it's based on something,
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  Evidential, evidentiary from what we know through Scripture and through sacred tradition.
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  This weekend, we have the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, period of growth as
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  we prepare for the eventuality of Advent.
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  And we'll be getting to those readings a little later in the program.
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  I want to share a little God wink with you.
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  I was telling John about this before the show. So my older brother,
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  Jeffrey, is very active in a church in the Gary, Indiana Diocese, St.
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  John the Evangelist, which is in St. John, Indiana.
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  And Jeff and his wife have been members there for quite some time.
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  Well, this last Sunday, they had, during the Mass, they celebrated the 50th
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  anniversary of three couples.
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  That was very nice when he wrote me about that on Monday of this week.
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  And then he said, and by the way, the celebrant for the Mass,
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  when he was just a young boy, was the ring bearer at one of the three weddings.
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  Well, isn't that cool that he's now a priest?
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  And he says, you won't believe who it was. It was Bishop Tilka from the Peoria Diocese.
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  So my bishop was at my brother's church in Indiana, celebrating the 50th anniversary
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  of a couple for whom he was ring bearer when he was a child.
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  And I thought that was very, very cool.
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  If you've never been to St. John's, St. John the Evangelist in St.
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  John, Indiana, you ought to go.
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  It's not only a beautiful, beautiful church, but next door to it,
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  there is a life-size church
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  representation of the stations of the cross. And it's absolutely breathtaking.
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  You can sit at the table for the Last Supper with the apostles and Jesus.
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  You can walk up to all these figures. And as you go through,
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  it starts off very, very dark and gets more colorful as we go.
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  And then at Jesus's death, it loses its color again. But at the resurrection,
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  and I don't want to give anything away.
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  What they have done to show the resurrection of Christ is an absolute work of art.
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  It's one of the most moving things I've ever seen. It's just beautiful.
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  Oh, and I'll tell you this part, just part of it. When you get to the burial
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  and you walk into the tomb and you see the empty slab with some of the linens
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  balled up at one end and some folded neatly at the other,
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  turn around and look behind you. And that's all I'm going to tell you.
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  It's really cool. It's beautifully done.
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  And it's worth the trip. It takes about an hour and a half to two hours to get to St.
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  John, Indiana from here. But it's well worth the trip to see this beautiful
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  presentation out in a beautiful garden setting.
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  It's the same length. The distance you walk is the same distance from the court of pilot,
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  to Golgotha, the mount where he was crucified, where Christ was crucified.
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  It's the same distance that Christ walked.
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  So it really is just a beautiful, beautiful representation of the stations,
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  and everyone should go there.
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  Catch Mass while you're there. The church is beautiful.
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  It's got a huge—at the top of the church, it's sort of domed,
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  and it's kind of done in the round. and the baptismal font is heated.
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  How cool is that? But at the top is this beautiful stained glass window of the
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  Holy Spirit hovering over the nave.
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  It's just, it's a great place. They have one thing I don't care for.
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  Their candles, their vigil candles are electronic.
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  You drop your money in the basket, you flick a little micro switch and a little
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  flicker candle lights in front of you.
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  I understand why they do it. candles create smoke smoke
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  creates damage i mean it it it dulls the
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  paint you know it just it creates a lot
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  of yeah in the church and so
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  a lot of new churches have gone to electronic candles but to me it's the smell
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  and the warmth of the candle that that makes votives so special and to me this
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  lacks that characteristic that ambiance but it is an absolutely beautiful church and they fill it.
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  You can't believe how many people come there every Sunday.
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  This church is full. In fact, at the family mass, which is the 10 o'clock,
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  they have to set up hundreds of folding chairs. This is a big church.
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  I asked my brother, because at our church, which is a pretty good-sized church,
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  every Sunday to put on the mass, if you count in the choir and the greeters
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  and the lectors and the servers, it takes about 38 laypeople to do the mass.
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  130. Their church, every Sunday, 130 lay volunteers and lay ministers to help
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  support the Mass. It is incredible.
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  I mean, sometimes a lot of churches struggle to get that many parishioners to
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  come to the Mass, let alone that many ministers to serve at the Mass.
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  It's just phenomenal. So get yourself out to St. John sometime.
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  I'm going to make one more plug. no matter what diocese you're a member in,
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  what parish you're a member of, within the next 30 to 60 days,
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  you're going to have what used to be called RCIA, is now called OCIA.
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  You're going to have an OCIA program begin.
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  This is the Order of Christian Initiation for Adults.
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  This is the primary way that converts come into the Catholic faith.
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  It's through this, usually a nine-month program. Meet every week for nine months.
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  And it gives you everything you need to enter into the Catholic Church.
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  An explanation of all the doctrines, all the dogmas, helps you to understand
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  the Mass, helps you to gain an appreciation for liturgy and for Scripture.
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  It's a marvelous in-depth program that will prepare you very well to enter the Catholic faith.
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  And it's taking place somewhere near you in almost every parish.
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  Sometimes parishes join together to do this. but there is an OCIA program near you.
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  And I especially want to invite non-Catholics who are married to a Catholic.
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  Because as parents with one Catholic spouse, you've probably agreed to raise
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  your children Catholic.
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  And that shouldn't just be the responsibility of the Catholic parent.
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  This should be the responsibility of both parents to teach their children about
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  a relationship with Christ, and you can't share what you don't have.
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  So if you're in a mixed marriage, whether you're going to convert to Catholicism
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  or not, you should at least know and understand the faith that your child is being raised in.
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  So I invite you to please contact your local parish, ask about OCIA,
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  and get yourself registered in that program, Attended Faithfully.
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  And be able to be a better, stronger Christian example to your children.
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  And welcome back to Good News. I am Deacon Al Lundy, and we're looking at the
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  readings for Sunday, August 10th, the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
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  And as Christians, regardless of which Christian faith you belong to,
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  we should be people of faith, hope, and love.
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  And these three readings that we have this Sunday speak to us of faith and hope,
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  and how they have been a part of our heritage throughout the Christian history,
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  as well as the Judaic history.
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  So our first reading is from the Old Testament, from the Book of Wisdom. It's very short.
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  And by the way, the other two readings are pretty lengthy, which is good news,
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  because most of the times if you have long readings, you have a short homily.
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  And today is going to be no exception to that. So, reading from the Book of Wisdom.
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  The night of the Passover was known beforehand to our fathers,
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  that with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they had put their faith,
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  they might have courage.
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  Your people awaited the salvation of the just and the destruction of their foes.
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  For when you punished our adversaries, in this you glorified us whom you had summoned.
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  For in secret, the holy children of the good were offering sacrifice and putting
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  into effect with one accord, the divine institution.
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  So yes, the Jewish people knew ahead of time what was going to happen Passover
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  night. An angel came and told them, right? Moses was aware of it.
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  They told everyone that the angel of death was coming and that to avoid its
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  effects, that they would need to christen their doorways with the blood of a sacrificed lamb.
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  I think it's really interesting. If you read the scriptures,
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  it tells that the parts of the door that were coated with the blood,
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  and it's the sign of the cross. It's a vertical and horizontal painting on the door, on the doorframe.
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  And so we already see the coming of Christ and his sacrifice of blood,
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  the Lamb of God. So this all makes perfect sense.
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  What started off in the Jewish faith was brought to fulfillment by Christ in
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  the establishment of the Christian faith.
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  In our second reading, it's a letter from Paul to the Hebrews.
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  Well, we think it's Paul.
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  There's a lot of disagreements over who the author or authors of Hebrews was, were.
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  So, but this is part of the New Testament writings.
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  Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.
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  Because of it the ancients were all attested.
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  By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was
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  to receive as an inheritance.
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  He went out, not knowing where he was to go.
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  By faith he sojourned into the promised land as into a foreign country,
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  dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs of the same promise.
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  For he was looking forward to the city with foundations whose architect and maker is God.
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  By faith he received power to generate even though he was past the normal age,
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  and Sarah herself was sterile, for he thought that the one who had made the
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  promise was trustworthy.
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  So it was that there came forth from one man himself as good as dead,
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  descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and as countless as the sands on the seashore.
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  All these died in faith. They did not receive what they'd been promised,
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  but saw it and greeted it from afar, and acknowledged themselves to be strangers
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  and aliens on earth, for those who speak thus show that they are seeking a homeland.
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  If they had been thinking of the land from which they had come,
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  they would have had opportunity to return.
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  But now they desire a better homeland, a heavenly one.
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  Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
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  By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac.
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  And he who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son,
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  of whom it was said, Through Isaac's descendants shall bear your name.
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  He reasoned that God was able to raise even from the dead, and he received Isaac
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  back as a symbol. The word of the Lord.
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  And we'll get back to the meaning of that reading after we listen to the gospel according to Luke.
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  Jesus said to His disciples, Do not be afraid any longer, little flock,
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  for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
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  Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do
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  not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy.
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  For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
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  Gird your loins and light your lamps, and be like servants who await their master's
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  return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.
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  Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.
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  Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table,
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  and proceed to wait on them.
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  And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this
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  way, blessed are those servants.
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  Be sure of this. If the master of the household had known the hour when the
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  thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
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  You also must be prepared, for in an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.
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  Then Peter said, Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?
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  And the Lord replied, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward,
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  whom the master will put in charge of his servants, to distribute the food and
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  allowance at the proper time.
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  Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so.
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  Truly, I say to you, the master will put that servant in charge of all his property.
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  But if that servant says to himself, my master is delayed in coming and begins
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  to beat the manservants and the maidservants and to eat and drink and get drunk,
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  then that servant's master will come on an unexpected day and at an unexpected
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  hour and will punish the servant severely and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
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  That servant who knew his master's will but did not make preparations nor act
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  in accord with his will shall be beaten severely.
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  The servant who was ignorant of his master's will but acted in a way deserving
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  of a severe beating shall be beaten only lightly.
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  Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will
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  be demanded of the person entrusted with more. The Gospel of the Lord.
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  Probably one of the more difficult readings to understand, but there's a good explanation to it.
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  Think for a moment about the person who you most associate with faithfulness.
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  Who comes to your mind? Is it someone who expresses gratitude to God and others
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  during only the good times?
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  Or is it someone whose steadiness and calmness stand out even when they face a hardship?
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  What is it about them that makes you think, this is a person of deep faith?
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  Today's scriptures invite us to reflect on that kind of faithfulness,
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  a faith that endures not only in moments of blessing, but also in moments of difficulty.
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  It's a faithfulness that's rooted in hope, not fleeting optimism,
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  but something deeper and more lasting.
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  The first reading from the Book of Wisdom recalls the night of the Passover,
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  God's people were spared from the worst of the angel of death.
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  It was a moment when being in a right relationship with God meant survival.
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  Yet not all of those who were spared lived to see the promised land.
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  Some wandered for years in the desert, facing hardships that tested their faith.
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  Their journey wasn't a straight line to prosperity. It wasn't easy.
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  Still, they had a promise from God, and that promise sustained them.
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  Being in a right relationship with God does not guarantee worldly success or
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  a life free of suffering, and not
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  all of our brothers and sisters in the Christian faith understand that.
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  In fact, sometimes they think quite the opposite.
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  But there are moments when being faithful to God can lead us into hardship.
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  That's why Jesus cautions us in today's gospel not to place our hope in things
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  that pass away—wealth, status, security.
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  We think we have a good life when we have those things. But our reward,
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  our true home, is not here. It's in heaven.
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  And achieving that goal, that hope, is going to require a faith in God that
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  isn't dependent on well-being, wealth, and status.
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  It relies on praying for the virtue of hope.
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  The hope of the faithful is not a naive optimism. It harkens back to the attitude
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  of Abraham and our other ancestors in the faith, deep and abiding sense that
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  God is calling us out of darkness and into our true homeland.
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  We have not yet seen the fullness of our heavenly home.
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  We've glimpsed it, the moment of our baptism, for we are united in the triumph
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  of the crucified risen Lord, and thus we arm ourselves with the hope of the
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  Holy Spirit rather than with hate and apathy that cause human suffering.
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  So this kind of hope gives us the readiness of which Jesus speaks of in the gospel.
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  It can't distinguish what is a momentary blessing from what's truly God's presence.
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  Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.
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  Those who are ready are those who have a deep relationship with the master,
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  those who know him and know what he wants of us.
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  And what does he want? He wants us to love God And to love our neighbor,
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  That should be your goal Each and every day That should be our prayer Each and
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  every day Help us, God, to follow your Son,
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  May Almighty God bless you Protect you from all evil And bring you to everlasting life Amen.
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