14th Sunday Ordinary Time C 2022
INTRO: A while ago I was listening to the great excitement of one of our students going ON and ON enthusiastically about their TRACK PROGRESS!!! Oh my… how their time was getting better and better, so much so that at the end of the season they won the meet! She could not stop talking!!!
Sure, talking about these exciting events is SO COMMON and WONDERFUL. We all do it when we get excited about something. It is easy to do, and the words fall right off our tongues!!
When I was listening to this youngster, I was THERE!!!! I was s transported to their “fields of play”!
I am sure all of you get excited about something and have NO QUALMS about telling others about it.
Even the seventy-two disciples in today’s Gospel cannot be squelched in their talking to JESUS when they return from their EVANGELISTIC JOURNEY! It sounds like they were going on and on!
I believe all of you would agree OUR WORLD needs JESUS increasingly more in these times in which we live.
The only way that this can happen, that JESUS becomes more prevalent in our world, is if we go away from our Mass, if we are commissioned so-to-speak after the Mass ends, excited enough to talk it up with others, to EVANGELIZE.
The purpose of this Gospel is to awaken within us this kind of conversation among our spouses, our family, our friends.
CONCLUSION
I love what happens in this church each time we gather. We HEAR HIS words, and we nourish ourselves with His loving and saving REAL PRESENCE. It is something spectacular for each of us.
When we are bombarded by the wild news and crazy happenings of the day WHICH WE LOVE TO TALK ABOUT OR RANT AND RAVE about we still can RISE ABOVE these topics with great HOPE and SATISFACTION in being Catholic and Christian.
Sure, the rising prices, the sad killings, and so many other things can make anyone anxious… yet challenging times like these give Christians the incredible opportunity to:
share what God has given us
remembering Jesus’ command for generosity.
Let us keep HIM more in our conversations!