Twentieth Sunday Homily in Ordinary Time Year A
1st Reading – Isaiah 56:1, 6-7
1 Thus says the LORD: Preserve judgment, and accomplish justice. For my salvation is close to its arrival, and my justice is close to being revealed.
1 Thus says the LORD: Preserve judgment, and accomplish justice. For my salvation is close to its arrival, and my justice is close to being revealed.
9A At the mountain of God, Horeb, Elijah came to a cave where he took shelter.
1 Thus says the LORD: All you who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come, receive grain and eat; Come, without paying and without cost, drink wine and milk!
5 The Lord appeared to Solomon, through a dream in the night, saying, “Request whatever you wish, so that I may give it to you.”
13 For neither is there any other God but you, who has care of all, to whom you would show that you did not give judgment unjustly.
10 Thus says the LORD: Just in the same manner as rain and snow descend from heaven, and no longer return there, but soak the earth, and water it, and cause it to bloom and to provide seed to the sower and bread to the hungry,
2 Sam 5:1-3 Col 1:12-20 Lk 23:35-43
True Leadership
Life’s Two Ways; The Full Meaning of Jesus as Our King.
Mal 13:19 2Thes 3:7-12 Lk 21: 5-19
Patient Endurance
The Lord Comes to Rule the Earth with Justice; Live Life Fully; The Day of the Lord.
2 Mac 7:1f.,9-14 2 Thes 2:16-35 Lk 20:27-38
Is This Life All There IS?
The Resurrection of the Body; Life after Death; Resurrection to Life; This World and the World of Resurrection.
Wis 1122-1221 2Thes 1:11-22 Lk 19:1‘10
To Whom Does Salvation Come?
The Table as Place of Salvation; Taking the Long View; The Long and Short of It; Mercy as the Way to Salvation.
Sir 35:12-14, 16-18 2 Tim 4:6-8, 16-18 Lk 18:9-14
How to Pray
The Lord and the Cry of the Poor; True Religion;
Humility in Approaching God; Preferential Option for the Por.
Ex 17:8-13 2Tim3:14-4:2 Lk18:1-8
Persistence, Especially in Prayer
The Place of Scripture in the’ Christian Life; Seeking Justice; Pray and Act.
2 Kgs 5:14-17 2 Tim 228-13 Lk 17:11-19
Gratitude and Praise
Humility in Faith; The Silliness of God; The Saving Power of God; God’s Healing; On Being an Outcast.
Habi:2f,2:2-4 2Timl:6-8,13f. Lk17:5-10
Stir into Flame Faith and Faithfulness
An Animating, Vigorous, and Courageous Faith; Faith and Courage; Genuineness of Faith; Hang in There!
Am 6:1, 4-7 1 Tim 6:11-16 Lk 16:19:”
Responsibility to the Underprivileged
Awareness above Complacency; Tenderness over Hardness; Justice; Hospitality and Its Abuse.