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🗓️ 22 August 2022
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Homily from the Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time.
How are you fighting for Heaven?
Jesus makes it very clear that our call is to make our pursuit of Heaven exactly that: a pursuit. He is personal and practical when He tells us that each and every one of us must strive for Heaven.
Luke 13:22-30
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0:00.0 | So, one of those things, if you're anything like me, here's one of my many problems. |
0:10.0 | I get overly interested in things that have nothing to do with me. |
0:14.1 | I was like, you know, you just want to know, you're like, right, I would say like this. |
0:17.6 | My circle of interest vastly outstrips my circle of influence. |
0:21.9 | So I want to know all about what's going on over here, what's going on in that person's |
0:24.9 | life, what's going on in the world. |
0:26.3 | And I'm just like, I want to know all these things that have nothing, nothing to do with |
0:30.3 | me. |
0:32.3 | And that's not, I think sometimes it's not a problem. |
0:34.0 | I think sometimes it's good that we have like, you know, curious minds, it's good that |
0:37.2 | we have an interest in a lot of things. |
0:41.1 | It's good until it's not, right? |
0:42.8 | It's good until those things that I'm interested in become an excuse to not do the things that |
0:47.4 | I have an influence over, right? |
0:49.5 | So, you know, we have people, maybe yourselves, maybe myself, where I'm so interested in |
0:53.0 | like global politics that I need to participate in local politics. |
0:57.4 | Or I'm so really, you know, distressed over the state of the family in the world these |
1:00.6 | days that I won't actually take care of my family in my house these days. |
1:04.5 | Like, I'm so, like, you know, just look at the world. |
1:07.0 | It's going to hell in a hand basket. |
1:10.2 | And I don't pay attention to where my soul is going. |
1:13.6 | Because I don't know about you, but I, for me, there's only one person that I actually |
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