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Twenty first Sunday in Ordinary time |
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We must read the Gospel stories with an awareness that the authors are aiming their
messages at the problem of the Christian community to which they are writing. Many early
Christians (and remember that there were probably no more than a thousand at the end of
the first century) found it hard to accept the fact that their leader, a man who was the
son of God in a special way would have died the horrible and humiliating death of
crucifixion, a death reserved for criminals and slaves. Peter’s protest is in effect
their protest. Life must be lost, Jesus responds. All of us must die, therefore he had to
die to, since he was one of us. He showed us how to die and brought God down with us into
the valley of death. |
read the padre |
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Story: Once upon a time a mom and dad were packing up there
things to go home from their summer vacation. They were very sad. They had to home because
the evil people who run schools make kids come back in August. The mom and dad were sad
about the end of summer. The family had enjoyed it enormously, husband and wife, children
and parents had been closer together than they had been in a long time. The kids were
getting older. There might never be another summer like this one. The parents, who were
really not very old, felt kind of old. Life was slipping through their fingers. Why did
summer have to end, why did kids have to grow older, why did their parents have to grow
older. Their eldest, a teenage boy, said what’s wrong with you two. They explained to
him. Oh, he said wisely, there’s always next summer. It’ll be different, but it
will be better if we make it better.
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