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🗓️ 7 October 2019
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Homily from the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time.
How do you know God loves you? How do you know you are saved? Answer: the sacraments.
The saving work of Jesus was accomplished in His life, death, resurrection, and ascension. The saving work of Jesus meets our lives and transforms them through the tangible gifts of His love: the sacraments.
Luke 17:5-10
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| 0:00.0 | So that question before Mass, who's one person that you know loves you? |
| 0:07.0 | I thought of my mom. |
| 0:10.0 | Oh, I know, it's adorable. |
| 0:12.0 | But honestly, out of many people, I have my life just been blessed by a lot of people who have cared for me and loved me. |
| 0:18.0 | My mom was just, she's at the top of the list, she's incredible. |
| 0:21.0 | And one of the reasons, the second part of the question was, okay, who's one person who loves you? |
| 0:25.0 | How do you know that they love you? |
| 0:27.0 | And I would say because every day when I was living in my parents' house growing up as a kid, every morning, before we got up, my mom would go into the kitchen and the kitchen there was like a fireplace. |
| 0:38.0 | My mom would make a fire before we came downstairs and she would make us breakfast every single morning. |
| 0:42.0 | And I thought this was normal, like my mom, if we were home, she'd make breakfast, lunch, and supper. |
| 0:46.0 | If we were at school, she'd make breakfast and then she'd make supper every single day. |
| 0:49.0 | And this was, I knew my mom loved me because she did that even when she was sick. |
| 0:55.0 | And she was sick, she poured out cold cereal and a gallon of milk and some bowls. |
| 0:59.0 | That was when she was on an off day. |
| 1:02.0 | And remember the first time I ever went to school and talked to some kids and they were saying something like, yeah, you know, I had pop tart just morning or I had to make my own breakfast this morning. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm like, what you made your own, doesn't your mom love you? |
| 1:12.0 | It just shocked me. I was like, oh my gosh, no, I always thought that that was a sign of my mom's love for me. |
| 1:18.0 | I did not realize, honestly, true story, I'm just like a couple of years ago. |
| 1:22.0 | My sisters had it to my older sisters had it to tell me this. |
| 1:25.0 | They're like, yeah, mom did that for us. She made breakfast for us every single morning. |
| 1:28.0 | She made supper for us every single night. She cooked for us all the time. |
| 1:31.0 | And I never knew this. My mom hates cooking. |
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