-
-
Home ⇰ Get Inspired ⇰ Homilies ⇰ 2020 Ordinary Time (before Lent)
-
-
-
BE PERFECT
Father Gregory Havil O.S.B.
In today’s first reading, the Lord says to Moses, “Speak to the whole Israelite community and tell them: Be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, am holy.”
In today’s Gospel, over a thousand years later, Jesus tells the Israelites something very similar: “Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
…and ends up crucified.
What happened?
-
JESUS AND THE LAW
Father Edward Mazuski O.S.B.
Sirach tells us, “Before man are life and death, good and evil, whichever he chooses shall be given him.” Sirach is one of the latest books of the Old Testament, written while Israel was under the domination of the Greeks. During this time, the Greeks attempted to force their gods onto the people of Israel to make them better citizens of their empire, which ultimately lead to the Maccabean revolt and a brief period of independence for Israel, until Herod the Great and the Romans showed up. In spite of this political turmoil, Sirach maintains the reality of individual free will, and the connection of our choice in our actions to our relationship with God.
-
-
-
THE PRESENTATION OF OUR LORD
Abbot (Emeritus) Mathew Stark O.S.B.
Today is the feast of the Presentation of our Lord in the temple. In the law of Moses, it says that after the purification of the mother and child, forty days after the birth of the child, the child shall be brought to Jerusalem and offered to God – really, as a sacrifice. But, it is forbidden for Jews to offer children as a sacrifice.
-
-
-
NEW LIFE AND THE UNITY
Fr. Francis Hein O.S.B.
We are in a very difficult time. What makes it even more difficult are the news networks; how can organizations that are dedicated to keeping us informed be so incredibly biased? How do we know what the truth really is? More importantly, how do we find the truth and begin to heal? Have we ever been such a divided country before?
-
FR. PAUL KIDNER
Father Edward Mazuski O.S.B.
Yesterday morning, Fr. Paul Kidner, a monk of St. Louis Abbey, died. He was an English monk, who joined Ampleforth Abbey, in northern England, studied theology in Rome, and then, upon Ordination, was sent to St. Louis, a then-recently established foundation of Ampleforth’s. Upon moving to what was then St. Louis Priory in 1959, in addition to his monastic duties, he was put into the school, where his engineering education lead him to teach math, something he continued doing for more than 50 years.
-
