Sunday

9 Jun 2013

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C Click here for all content for this cycle Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C

SUNDAY SUMMARY

1 Kings 17:17-24 Elijah the wonder-worker must once again prove that he is indeed a man from God.

Psalm 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11, 12, 13 Praise and thanksgiving are the responses of one whose mourning has turned to dancing.

Galatians 1:11-19 Saint Paul emphasizes his independence from the other apostles in his singular revelation.

Luke 7:11-17 Jesus continues to mirror Elijah and Elisha in his concern for the bereaved Nain mother.

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The inner word

What’s in your heart?

It’s very likely that at times in your life you have been doubted, mistrusted, or had your abilities questioned. As you can hear in this Sunday’s readings, Ezekiel, Saint Paul, and Jesus experienced the same thing.

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Exploring the word

A world wants for miracles

Tired. That’s how I feel when I read about Elijah rushing upstairs to save a dead child on behalf of his grief-stricken hostess. Or hear Saint Paul’s confession about eagerly persecuting the church until he heartily embraced it and became its biggest missionary. Or consider that Jesus couldn’t walk a mile down a road without encountering someone who needs a miracle out of him.

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Homily stories

Meet your maker

God does make regular visits in our lives: in the merest everyday moments and in the rarer grand glories and sorrows. They are all chapters in the revelation of the Divine Mystery.

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Prayers

Penitential Act & Prayer of the Faithful

We pray in the merciful presence of God.

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Homily themes

Notes on the text

God changes things. God transforms—the faith of a pagan woman to one who recognizes a prophet of God; a persecutor to a great missionary; accusations to praise; mourning into joy; the dead to the living.

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Sign & sacrament

Sorrow, interrupted

“I am a man of constant sorrow.” So goes the bluegrass song popularized in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? Many of us have seen our share of sorrow, but few have made a hard-and-fast vocation of it.

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Quotes

He [Jesus] became what we are that he might make us what he is. —Saint Athanasius

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