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Saturday Nov 23, 2019
Homily for November 23, 2019
Saturday Nov 23, 2019
Saturday Nov 23, 2019
Our Gospel passage today comes at a time when the Saducees, as well as the Pharisees and chief priests, were at a point when they had had enough of Jesus and His message. They wanted to kill Him, but He had the ear and the support of the people. So, the leaders believed they couldn’t kill Him. The questions they began posing were an attempt to get Him to blaspheme, giving them reason to put Him to death. They were trying to get Him to mess things up for Himself. They had an agenda hidden within their questioning.
We, too, often have an agenda when we go to Jesus. Usually, it’s something that we want, something that we want to change, or it’s about something about our life or our faith that we don’t like. Sometimes, without really meaning to, that agenda can go against Jesus’ message or even the nature of God.
In our prayer, we should ask God for help with things, for change, for answers, but that prayer needs to be offered with a truly open heart, mind, and soul, that our agenda may take a back seat or disappear completely, so that God’s agenda may be our agenda. +
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