{"id":832,"date":"2012-10-01T07:16:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=832"},"modified":"2012-10-01T07:16:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:16:38","slug":"sunday-homily-september-30-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/sunday-homily-september-30-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Homily – September 30, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B<\/a>
\nNumbers 11:25-29
\nJames 5:1-6
\nMark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48
\nSeptember 30, 2012<\/p>\n

John comes to Jesus concerned that a person is driving out demons in Jesus\u2019 name because, apparently, he is not part of the same group as John.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jesus\u2019 reply is to say that the person could only do this if he was a follower of him.<\/p>\n

Our first reading is a parallel of this.\u00a0 Our Lord takes some of the same spirit that Moses had and distributes it among the seventy elders.\u00a0 But two were not present.\u00a0 They are found to be prophesying anyway.<\/p>\n

People are shocked.\u00a0 Joshua thinks Moses should stop them.\u00a0 Moses says no!\u00a0 Moses tells them it would be great if all could do this.<\/p>\n

After Jesus came, everyone who follows him does receive the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 With the Holy Spirit we all receive in some portion the gifts of knowledge, wisdom, understanding, right judgment, courage, piety, and fear of the Lord.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

We each receive different gifts to use in different ways.\u00a0 In our readings today, the people couldn\u2019t understand how others were doing these things because they couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Or maybe as Moses suggests, they were jealous about it.<\/p>\n

Are you jealous for the gifts you see other people have?<\/p>\n

Might it be better to be thankful for the gifts they have and the gifts we have.\u00a0 We aren\u2019t all meant to have all the gifts.\u00a0 We have different gifts and are called to work together, pooling our gifts to make our world be what God calls it to be.<\/p>\n

For instance, I know I don\u2019t have the gift of music.\u00a0 I auditioned for the school choir in fifth grade and was rejected.\u00a0 I took lessons for the organ, trombone, guitar, and drum.\u00a0 It became evident that I was not gifted in any of them.\u00a0 I wish I could sing well but I don\u2019t.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t stop me from singing.\u00a0 I always try to sing along but I know there are people who are good at singing and playing instruments for us.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m good at things they aren\u2019t.\u00a0 I\u2019m standing here preaching before you.\u00a0 I bet most of the choir won\u2019t what to be in my shoes.\u00a0 That\u2019s ok.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have to.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

We each have different gifts.\u00a0 We should be thankful for the gifts that we do have and also be thankful that we have others around us with the gifts that we don\u2019t have.\u00a0 Then, we work together as One Body in Christ.<\/p>\n

It can be like the question is the cup half-full or half-empty.\u00a0 Do we spend all our time thinking about what we do have or what we don\u2019t have?<\/p>\n

It might be easy to thankful for the person who does the job we don\u2019t want to do but we can also be thankful for the people who do we would like to be able to but can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

So where do we get these gifts anyway?\u00a0 We receive them from God for the Holy Spirit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

We receive the Holy Spirit at Baptism and are sealed with it at Confirmation.\u00a0 For most of us who were baptized as babies, we don\u2019t remember our baptism.\u00a0 At our baptisms, our parents promised to raise us up to keep God\u2019s commandments and they made our baptismal promises for us.<\/p>\n

We are confirmed when we are a little older.\u00a0 At Confirmation, we renew our baptismal promises for ourselves.<\/p>\n

As such, Confirmation has been called a sacrament of maturity.\u00a0 But some people have interpreted this to mean that Confirmation makes us an adult in the Church.<\/p>\n

Confirmation does not make us an adult.\u00a0 People as young as seven can be confirmed.\u00a0 When we say that Confirmation is a sacrament of maturity, what we mean is that the person has become aware for themselves about the presence of God in their live.<\/p>\n

With that in mind we have six people preparing for Confirmation in our parish.\u00a0 They will be confirmed at St. Catherine\u2019s on October 23rd.\u00a0 This weekend they are making their enrollment to declare their commitment to preparing themselves for the sacrament and their parents commit themselves to help.\u00a0 Then, we are asked as members of our community to support them with our prayers and words.<\/p>\n

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26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B Numbers 11:25-29 James 5:1-6 Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 September 30, 2012 John comes to Jesus concerned that a person is driving out demons in Jesus\u2019 name because, apparently, he is not part of the same group as John.\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 reply is to say that the person could only …<\/p>\n

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