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🗓️ 4 October 2021
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Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.
"Because I said I would."
We are not yet who we are called to be. Sometimes, in order to become the person we are called to be, we need to stop holding on to what is holding us back. Other times, we need to keep holding on. The ability to make and keep a promise is one of the ways we are called to become who we are created and redeemed to be.
Mark 10:2-16
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0:00.0 | So, a little while back, I came across this, I was at a youth conference and this girl, |
0:06.4 | she had this t-shirt on and on the t-shirt were the words, these words that just suck with |
0:11.6 | me, I just, all that said on her shirt, there was no image, it just was words and the words |
0:17.0 | said, because I said I would, that was it, because I said I would and I was just captivated |
0:25.0 | by this, I'm like, man, this is awesome, if one of those kind of sayings, one of those |
0:28.9 | phrases that just, I thought, where does this come from? |
0:31.8 | So, I, you know, have a friend, his name is Google and he tells me a lot and I went |
0:36.5 | to look up and apparently, there's this man named Alex Sheen. |
0:41.4 | An Alex Sheen at one point was just a normal guy, living a normal life, working a normal |
0:46.2 | job until his father was diagnosed with cancer. |
0:49.7 | A cancer that ultimately took his dad's life and at his father's funeral, Alex Sheen |
0:55.4 | got up and he gave a talk, he gave a uglogy and he said that his father was his, his, his |
1:00.5 | hero. |
1:03.1 | Out of all the human beings on the planet, he said, my father was my greatest hero. |
1:06.5 | He said, it wasn't because my father was the most handsome of all men, he said, it wasn't |
1:10.3 | because my father was super fit, wasn't because my father was an incredibly successful businessman |
1:14.3 | or or or or made a lot of money or that he was even successful with whatever it ended |
1:19.0 | up, he did in life. |
1:21.5 | He said, my father was my hero for one reason and that one reason is he kept his promises. |
1:31.2 | My father was my hero for one reason because he kept his promises because if he said he |
1:38.3 | would do something, he would do it and he did it because he said he would. |
1:42.8 | You know, I was thinking about this, this reality that making a, you know, I think that the |
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