{"id":2902,"date":"2019-06-30T12:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:50:57","slug":"13th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-c-homily-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/13th-sunday-in-ordinary-time-year-c-homily-2\/","title":{"rendered":"13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C – Homily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C<\/a>
1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21
Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 (see 5a)
Galatians 5:1, 13-18
Luke 9:51-62
June 30, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easter ended at Pentecost three weeks\nago and we returned to Ordinary Time. \nHowever, for the last two Sundays we celebrated two special solemnities,\nthe Most Holy Trinity and the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we fully return to Ordinary\nTime.  We pick up with the Thirteenth\nSunday of Year C.  Our gospel reading\ntoday comes from the beginning of a section in Luke\u2019s gospel known as Jesus\u2019\njourney to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s called this because Jesus\nliterally is on a journey to Jerusalem but it is more than just a geographic\njourney from one town to another.  Yes,\nHe is going to the city of Jerusalem. \nThat was a journey He made 2,000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is his journey to the Cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also a metaphor for the journey\nwe are all on.  Coming here to worship,\nwe are all on a journey to the heavenly city often referred to as\n\u201cJerusalem.\u201d  We all seek the same\ndestination for eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping this in mind, the story of\nJesus\u2019 journey is not a short story telling us what road He took or where He\nstayed.  The journey encompasses ten\nchapters, almost half, of Luke\u2019s gospel. \nOn the journey He will continue to cure people and to teach what God\u2019s\nLaw really means for us.  He does this to\nlead us on our own journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are all seeking the same\ndestination, Heaven, but our paths can take different directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus sets out on his journey \u201cresolutely determined<\/em>\u201d to make it to\nJerusalem in accord with God\u2019s plan.  Are\nwe \u201cresolutely determined<\/em>\u201d in our\njourney to the heavenly Jerusalem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is someone opposes us on the\nway?  Are we like James and John who\nwanted \u201cto call down fire from heaven<\/em>\u201d\nto destroy those did \u201cnot welcome him<\/em>\u201d?  Jesus told them not to do that.  We need to share the faith but we are not\nto force<\/em><\/strong> our faith on others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are we willing to follow Jesus\nwherever He goes?  Many think it should\nbe simple to follow Jesus but the reality is it can be difficult.  Here Jesus says, \u201cFoxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has\nnowhere to rest his head<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What keeps us from following Jesus on\nthe journey to Heaven?  Are we like the\ndisciple who responded to Jesus\u2019s call by saying, \u201cLord, let me go first and bury my father<\/em>\u201d?  Burying the dead was considered a work of\nmercy but God must always be first.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another disciple said, \u201cbut first let me say farewell to my family\nat home.<\/em>\u201d  Were they just looking for\na quick goodbye that one might expect or they want a long time to take of some\nstuff first?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you ready to answer the call in\nGod\u2019s time or do you expect it to happen when you want?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see people who are just getting out\nof school and they want to get their careers established so they focus on that\nand forget about Jesus.  Then, they want\nto start a family and they focus on their children, which God wants us to, but\nnot at the expense of forgetting about him. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then retirement comes and freedom of\ntime but then they say, let me relax for a while and then I can think about\nwhat God might be calling me to.  There\u2019s\nnothing wrong with resting in retirement but it is never okay to put Jesus at\nthe bottom of the list.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes we want for something\nspectacular to happen to know what God calls us to do.  However, it is often in the ordinary things\nof life that God calls us.  Elisha was\nplowing the fields when God called him.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are a parent of young\nchildren, God is calling you to be a good Christian parent.  Made God a daily part of your family\u2019s life.  If you are retired, God can call you to serve\nin the simple or extravagant.  You just\nneed to let him lead you on the \u201cpath of\nlife.<\/em>\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

God gives us freedom to choose our\npath.  Do we choose the ways of the\nflesh, meaning letting earthly pleasures control our lives, becoming slaves to\nsin, or do we seek the ways of the Spirit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are we firm in our resolve to make\nthe journey to Jerusalem or do we waffle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes it can be hard to make good\nchoices for the journey.  When we go on a\njourney in the car, we rely on GPS.  That\nstands for \u201cglobal positioning system.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our spiritual journey, we need a\ndifferent sort of GPS, \u201cGod-positioning-system.\u201d  It begins in regular prayer where we listen\nto God and letting him lead us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 (see 5a)Galatians 5:1, 13-18Luke 9:51-62June 30, 2019 Easter ended at Pentecost three weeks ago and we returned to Ordinary Time.  However, for the last two Sundays we celebrated two special solemnities, the Most Holy Trinity and the Most Holy Body …<\/p>\n

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