Sunday

27 Sep 2015

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B Click here for all content for this cycle Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

SUNDAY SUMMARY

Numbers 11:25-29  Moses refuses to be jealous for the prophetic gifts that are his.
Psalm 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14  The true servant of God is always seeking new ways to improve and perfect.
James 5:1-6  The evangelist is pointblank in accusing his assembly of injustice.
Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48  Jesus describes the relative importance of the mortal and the immortal life.

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The inner word

What’s in your heart?

This week’s Letter to the Ephesians, though probably not composed by Paul, captures his spirit and his consistent call for unity: One body, spirit, hope, faith, Baptism, and God of all.

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Exploring the word

Bold homilies and why we rarely hear them

Who loves a challenge? Let’s have a show of hands! That’s great. Now consider: Who loves being publicly called out and verbally thrashed for doing wrong? Fewer takers? If your assembly is normal, chances are they don’t really want a bold homily.

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In other words

The Sunday gospel in everyday English

John spoke up, “Teacher, we saw a man using your name to expel demons and we stopped him because he wasn’t in our group.” Jesus wasn’t pleased. “Don’t stop him. No one can use my name to do something good and powerful, and in the next breath cut me down. If he’s not an enemy, he’s an ally. ...

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Homily stories

Only you can prevent hell on earth

In ancient times children were sacrificed to the pagan god Moloch in an area known as the Valley of Hinnom (Ge Hinnom in Hebrew), just south of what became the city of Jerusalem. By the time of Christ, the Greek word Gehenna had become associated with an evil place of fire, stench, and rotting flesh where wormy maggots never die—yuck!—in other words, hell.

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Prayers

Penitential Act & Prayer of the Faithful

Like the crowds who followed Jesus, we seek him and ask him for forgiveness and healing.

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Homily themes

Notes on the text

Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them. The stories of Jesus’ multiplication of food and feeding of large numbers of people are told six times in the gospels, and readers therefore would be correct not only to note their importance but also to hear in them overtones of the eucharistic celebration.

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Quotes

John 6 invites us to live into a grace-filled inheritance, a timely calling because most of us tend to live on the edges of what God has to offer. —Charles Hoffman, The Christian Century, Jul. 25, 2006

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