Deacon Greg's Homily 10-4-15
Homily – October 4, 2015 (The Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time - B) Readings: Genesis 2: 18-24; Psalm 128: 1-6; Hebrews 2: 9-11; Mark 10: 2-1 6 Today is the Feast of St. Francis. Francis loved creation! Francis loved the poor! Francis loved peace! Our own Holy Father, Pope Francis visited our country last week, and challenged us to continue the dialogue around these very three things! Interestingly enough, I heard a song this week that caught my attention. It personified the morning as a person seeing God's light for the first time, and in a way provides us with a good introduction to the message in today's readings, as we are called to embrace God's intimacy. The first morning to have ever seen the sun must have run the other way. But in spite of her fear, she finally spun around to behold the sweet light rising through the trees. She fell to her knees and she began to smile, because she had been in darkness for a long long while. (A Paraphr