Homily for the Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori

The message in today's Gospel is similar to that of Tuesday's Gospel: Throughout life on earth, there will be both good and bad people, virtue and vice. Sometimes, this can be hard to take, and we may wonder why God allows it.

Jesus connects a shared experience of the people when He compares the process of hauling a full net of fish ashore and separating the bad from the good to the angels doing so at the end of time.

Let us pray for patience and hope that God will indeed separate the good from the bad at the end of time. In the face of life's challenges, let us do all that we can and must do to enter the kingdom of God.