15th Sunday in Ordinary Time C
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL MASS

Intro: Tell story of Father Prendergast and
“I just love these potatoes!”

“YOU ONLY LOVE GOD AND PEOPLE” ………. NOT POTATOES!!!!”

He was right…. Potatoes are an inanimate object…!!!!

Have you ever asked yourself the question?
“How do I get to heaven?”

This is the question that the scholar asks Jesus in today’s Gospel.
At some point all of us have heard the GOLDEN RULE:

Treat others as you would like to be treated!
This GOLDEN RULE asks us to reflect on two things:
1. How do I love myself (in a non-selfish way)?
2. How do I USE that love as a guide to love others?

You see, love of self is seeing myself as a beautiful creation of God.

LIKE THE SAINTS DID as many of you learned in VBS!

If I cannot FIRST SEE that in myself, it will then be difficult to show that love to OTHERS!!!!

Another good question to ask is: “Who is my neighbor”?

The parable today, JESUS does the greatest thing and sets for us an example:

Go out to ALL people, neighbors and love them!

We are continuing to live in a world where there is violence and hatred between races, and it is so sad that this takes place.
You VBS kids will change this in our world! I know you can!

CONCLUSION

So today, you may not be going from JERUSALEM to JERICHO, as Jesus did, but you are going from this CHURCH …. back into the world to love God, yourself, and your neighbor as the saints showed us! Happy travelling!