Deacon Greg's Homily 6-14-15
Homily – June 14, 2015 (The Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - B) Readings: Ezekiel 17: 22-24, Ps. 92: 2-3, 13-14, 15-16; 2 Corinthians 5: 6-10; Mark 4: 26-34 VBS: A Marvelous Mystery: The Mass Comes Alive! At the VBS Closing Mass on Friday, one of the Prayers of Faithful offered prayed, “Lord, you revealed yourself in a way that confused the proud. Help us all to become humble children that we may become closer to you and begin to understand your great mysteries.” The Nature of a Parable... And therein lies our challenge today, and every day, when we approach the Lord here at His table. The Lord reveals Himself in the mystery of the Trinity, in the mystery of His Body and Blood, and in the mystery of His Word, which today comes to us in the form of parables. Simply put, parables are an explicit comparison of one item to another. More than just an analogy, or an image, parables tell us what God is like by comparing God's being or behavior to something famili...