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Christmas 2020 homily

The question Jesus proposes to us is simple - are we willing to let Him interrupt our life?  Are we willing to renounce our own plans and designs to allow Him to lead us where He desires?  If we can do that - we will be saints.  But if we don't, then we never will be.  Let Jesus interrupt you so that He can reveal Himself to you more fully!

The Lord invites us to subject ourselves to his discipline so that we may be molded into saints who know Him truly and who allow Him to know us.  How can we enter into that discipline well so that we can be transformed by it?  How can we know Jesus to enter in through the narrow gate that leads to our salvation?

Jesus wants to set the world on fire! Will we let him?

May we have the courage of the martyrs in witnessing to the faith!

May we receive the gifts that the Lord desires to give us to have the "holy memory" to know of His presence.

We pray for the grace of faith to believe that the Lord's words to us can and will be fulfilled.

Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.  Jesus extends the invitation to answer that question.  Where are my deepest loves?  Let our love for Jesus be the thing that decides everything.

How is the Lord speaking to you today?

How is the Lord speaking to you today?

The Lord desires to speak to us like he speaks to Moses - face to face, as one friend to another.

The Lord calls us to be aware of the invitations He places before us so that we can respond to them.  We pray for that grace.

Jesus offers us a challenge when it comes to prayer today.  Why do I even need to pray?  How am I supposed to do it?  What about when God doesn't seem to answer?  Today Jesus invites us to authentic prayer that focuses not on getting things but on getting to know Someone.

God can be found in many walks of life! St. Bridget reveals this to us!

Mary Magdalene waited - let us follow her example of waiting on the Lord!

What's the lesson of Martha and Mary in our lives today?  Martha asks a very pointed question to Jesus - Do you not care??  How can we know that the Lord really does care about what happens to us?

What do superheroes have to do with the Good Samaritan?  See how we can to respond to the heroic love that Jesus invites every single one of us to!

In the Gospel we hear the mission that Jesus gives to the 72 - what does that mission have to do with us?

The homily preached at my Mass of Thanksgiving for the Solemnity of the Ascension by Fr. Andre Melancon at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church.

The Master has need of it.  Will you respond?