My Homily for this weekend is coming
I did preach this weekend, so there will be a posting of it coming soon. It will not be the text that I wrote because I did not write my homily out for today.
This week was a bit busy. Being a priest in NJ, we do not move the Solemnity of the Lord’s Ascension to the Seventh Sunday of Easter. I am really glad that we do not. While I know that there are places in the USA where traveling to church can be a hardship (often more so for the priest in those parts who might have 3 or 4 missions to also get to), that is not generally the case in NJ. There are still plenty of Catholic churches to go to. Some times I fear we do too much to make things easy for Catholic. They start to forget about the importance of sacrifice, and putting God first in our lives.
That being said, I did have a homily to write for the Ascension. I then left on Thursday and drove about 500 miles to Durham, NC. My niece, Sydney, graduated high school on Friday, and I wanted to be there for that. But since I did have Mass this weekend, I had to drive back to NJ yesterday — a 9 hour drive.
Now, I had been praying over this weekend’s readings all last week, but when I got home last night I was too tired to write up my thoughts. So it was not really off the cuff, but it was more spontaneous. I did alright, and I recorded it. I should be able to write up a summary of it tomorrow.
