Your Homilies are mailed to your address monthly and continue two weeks in advance of the following quarter.
Each homily contains timely illustrations and exegetical insights on the biblical text.
Daily Mass homilies are one-page, single spaced, on 8 1/2″ x 11″ double-sided paper.
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A Sample from December 6
THE REDEEMED PEOPLE
The Texts: Isaiah 29:17-24, Matthew 9:27-31
Many neighborhoods have a “bulky item day.” The waste management service encourages us to leave old furniture on the curbside for pickup for “free.” Resourceful neighbors know that one person’s trash is another’s treasure. With the right eye, a chair can be redeemed, reupholstered, and reused—if you know what to claim before the garbage truck arrives.
The people first attracted to the suffering Servant in Isaiah and Matthew had all the qualities of a discarded chair on the curbside. This might sound strange, odd, or unreasonable, but they shared one typical quality: they have been redeemed.
In Isaiah 29:22, the prophet reminds us of a powerful scene from Abraham and Jacob’s family (Isaiah 29:22). They view themselves as a people freed from bondage. When Jacob (now Israel) blesses his sons, he uses the language of redemption. God liberates them from the famine in Israel and brings them to Egypt to be reconciled and reunited with his family (Genesis 48:15-16). This family has faced estrangement, slavery, isolation, and now reunification and healing in a foreign land. Israel’s identity as a people eventually becomes a cornerstone of Jesus’ mission.
Read Jacob’s prayer:
Then he blessed Joseph,
“God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
God, who has been my shepherd again and again until this day,
The Angel who has freed me (redeemed me) from every evil, bless these young ones!
Let my name be remembered through them
And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them be multiplied greatly
upon the earth.”
This theme explains why two blind men in Matthew saw Jesus as the Son of David. When others left them alone in their darkness, they had a different vision. They saw that Jesus had a greater purpose and wanted to redeem them.
Do you find yourself in a place you never imagined? God isn’t finished with you yet. It could be on the side of the road in a land like Egypt or the dark like two blind men. He’s still working on repurposing what we think has been discarded. Let him redeem the parts of your lives that you thought were wasted.
