4th Sunday of Lent: Homily by Fr. Vigoa — Transcript

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1. 0:00well we gather on this fourth Sunday of
2. 0:03Lent leari Sunday you see by the rose
3. 0:07vestment but I have a $50 Euro who here
4. 0:13if I asked
5. 0:15you who wants this 50 EUR I imagine all
6. 0:20of your hands would go
7. 0:22up but let's say that I crumpled this
8. 0:2650 mashed it into a ball and I asked you
9. 0:29again who want wants it again I imagine
10. 0:33all of your hands would go up let's say
11. 0:36that I throw it down on the floor and I
12. 0:39crumpled it I I I step on it I suly
13. 0:44it again I ask you who wants this
14. 0:49€50 despite being a deformed sullied
15. 0:54again I think that all of you would
16. 0:56raise your hands that you would want it
17. 0:59we still see the worth of this 50
18. 1:03euros that's a little example I think
19. 1:05that the example goes a long way and
20. 1:08this example helps us to understand our
21. 1:11readings
22. 1:12today we hear from the second book of
23. 1:15Chronicles we don't read from Chronicles
24. 1:18often but that book is basically a
25. 1:20summary of the history of God's people
26. 1:23from Genesis all the way to
27. 1:26Exodus and it's about the 6th Century
28. 1:29before Christ
29. 1:30Christ the part we read in Chronicles
30. 1:33today is about one of the most
31. 1:36catastrophic events in history in the
32. 1:39history of Israel it's about the
33. 1:41Babylonian
34. 1:43exile throughout the centuries leading
35. 1:46up to that God's people had turned away
36. 1:48from him slowly at first but then as the
37. 1:52reading tells us they added infidelity
38. 1:56to
39. 1:57infidelity practiced things that were an
40. 2:00Abomination to God and they polluted
41. 2:03God's temple with their
42. 2:05idolatry they basically kicked God out
43. 2:09and as a result God allowed the kingdom
44. 2:12of Babylon to invade and Conquer
45. 2:16Israel the Babylonians destroyed
46. 2:18Jerusalem tore down the Great temple of
47. 2:21God that Solomon had built and carried
48. 2:23off the people into Exile back into
49. 2:26Babylon they in Babylon far away from
50. 2:29their whole land Homeland the people
51. 2:31came to their senses and realized that
52. 2:34they had sinned and that they had
53. 2:36strayed away from the faith and what did
54. 2:39they do they
55. 2:40repented and we hear a snippet of their
56. 2:43lament in the psalm today the psalm says
57. 2:46by the Rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
58. 2:49when we remembered
59. 2:51Zion but even though they had abandoned
60. 2:53God God would not abandon them he still
61. 2:57loved them even though they had
62. 2:59forgotten the Commandments even though
63. 3:01they had turned their backs on him and
64. 3:03turned towards false gods even though
65. 3:06they had become deformed and sullied by
66. 3:09their sins God still loved
67. 3:12them kind of like the 50e old God still
68. 3:16wanted them and still saw their
69. 3:19worth the rest of this reading from
70. 3:21Chronicles is about how God brought them
71. 3:23back from Exile how he reestablishes
72. 3:26them and how he makes them his people
73. 3:29once again in the Holy Land This reading
74. 3:32is a testament not to the faith of the
75. 3:35people remember they had abandoned their
76. 3:37faith but to the graciousness and mercy
77. 3:40of God of who God
78. 3:43is that leads us to the gospel into the
79. 3:46arguably the most popular most quoted
80. 3:49Bible
81. 3:50verse you see athletes put it underneath
82. 3:53their eyes you see people put it tattoo
83. 3:55it on their bodies John
84. 3:583:16 and in a lot of ways this verse
85. 4:01sums up the entirety of the Christian
86. 4:03proclamation of the good
87. 4:05news and it tells us why God did what he
88. 4:09did for God so loved the world he gave
89. 4:11us his only son so that everyone who
90. 4:13believed in him might not perish but
91. 4:15might have eternal life you see that
92. 4:19sums up everything absolutely everything
93. 4:21about our faith that's why we see John
94. 4:243:16 quoted so
95. 4:26often that verse and this Gospel reading
96. 4:29is coupled with that first reading from
97. 4:31Chronicles for the gospel 2 is about a
98. 4:35testament of God's graciousness of God's
99. 4:38mercy towards
100. 4:39us that one verse describes so many
101. 4:43things it describes who Jesus is he's is
102. 4:45the Son of God it tells us why he came
103. 4:49because the father gave him to us it
104. 4:53also answers why the father gave him to
105. 4:55us why did he give it to us so that we
106. 4:57would not perish in our sins so that we
107. 5:00might be saved and it reveals why the
108. 5:03father did not want us to perish in our
109. 5:05sins why because he loved us even though
110. 5:09we were deformed even though we were
111. 5:11sullied by our by our sins he desired us
112. 5:14to share eternal life with him that's
113. 5:16the promise that God makes to us you
114. 5:18will be with me for all
115. 5:21eternity the same graciousness and mercy
116. 5:23of God towards the Israelites that is
117. 5:26praised in the book of Chronicles is now
118. 5:28glorious proclaimed to the world through
119. 5:31the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it's
120. 5:33summed up in that little verse of
121. 5:363:16 and I have to say that is the core
122. 5:39of the Gospel
123. 5:40message one thing that the season of
124. 5:43Lent is designed to do is to help us to
125. 5:46remember why we believe in the first
126. 5:48place to remember who we
127. 5:51are and with mature Faith begin to
128. 5:54believe in a deeper way with a profound
129. 5:58Faith with a deeper Rel relationship
130. 6:00with our Lord to renew and to reaffirm
131. 6:03our
132. 6:04beliefs we do that by remembering once
133. 6:06more that core Proclamation and the
134. 6:09church and the church proclaims it a new
135. 6:11today so that those who are away from
136. 6:13the Lord may hear and return back to
137. 6:17him and that those who have not yet the
138. 6:20have heard the faith might by their own
139. 6:23repentance begin to believe in him with
140. 6:27confidence maybe the little the little
141. 6:30analogy that I gave you about the 50
142. 6:33euros may help us to begin to understand
143. 6:35the graciousness and mercy of God and
144. 6:39this gospel message today which is very
145. 6:41simple but very
146. 6:43powerful that message is this let not
147. 6:47the sinner despair because of his plight
148. 6:50but come to the Lord though may be
149. 6:52deformed and soled by their sins God
150. 6:55still loves you and God still sees your
151. 6:58value
152. 7:00so much so that he gives us his son so
153. 7:02that we will not perish so my brothers
154. 7:05and sisters on this fourth Sunday of
155. 7:06Lent turn to him believe in him so that
156. 7:10you may have eternal life for you have
157. 7:14worth
158. 7:17amen