Homily June 30, 2024: Fr Vigoa — Transcript

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1. 0:03well dur during the terrible days of the
2. 0:06Blitz from September 1940 to May of
3. 0:101941 there was this intense bombing
4. 0:14campaign by Nazi Germany against the
5. 0:17United
6. 0:18Kingdom a father and his small
7. 0:22son a father holding his small son's
8. 0:25hand ran from a building that had been
9. 0:28struck from a bomb
10. 0:30in the front yard was a shell
11. 0:33hole seeking shelter as quickly as
12. 0:36possible the father jumped into the hole
13. 0:39and held his arms up for his son to
14. 0:43follow terrified yet hearing his
15. 0:46father's voice not being able to see him
16. 0:49telling him to jump the boy replied I
17. 0:52can't I can't see you the father looking
18. 0:55up against the sky tinted in Red by the
19. 0:58burning buildings called called to the
20. 1:00silhouette of his son but I can see you
21. 1:05jump the boy had great fear but he
22. 1:08jumped because he had faith in his
23. 1:11father the father caught
24. 1:14him in today's Gospel we meet two people
25. 1:18facing Health
26. 1:21crisises the first was jeras a synagogue
27. 1:24official and the second was this unnamed
28. 1:27woman who was afflicted with hemorrhages
29. 1:31the synagogue official came to Jesus
30. 1:33because his daughter was about to die
31. 1:35and the woman approached Jesus because
32. 1:37no one had been able to help
33. 1:39her both of these people were anxious
34. 1:43and upset and both took a risk in
35. 1:45approaching Jesus each of them
36. 1:48approached Jesus in a different way but
37. 1:50they both had deep trust and they had
38. 1:55faith I want to look more closely at
39. 1:58these two people beginning with jaras
40. 2:00who pleaded with Jesus to save his
41. 2:03daughter's
42. 2:04life all parents feel anxiety when their
43. 2:08children are seriously ill you can
44. 2:10almost hear the anxiety in Jar's voice
45. 2:13as he approaches Jesus he says my
46. 2:16daughter is at the point of death please
47. 2:20come and lay your hands on her that she
48. 2:22may get well and
49. 2:24live jaras his love for his daughter
50. 2:27overrode the risk that he took and
51. 2:30approaching
52. 2:31Jesus as a lay man who managed the
53. 2:34synagogue activities and finances he
54. 2:37knew that he would be criticized by
55. 2:40some for seeming to put his faith in
56. 2:44Jesus besides jeras knew that Jesus's
57. 2:47last visit visit to a synagogue did not
58. 2:50go very well many people rejected
59. 2:54Jesus's words and some wanted to kill
60. 2:57him in approaching Jesus Jerry ra his
61. 3:00risk not only criticism but also a fall
62. 3:03from grace he was putting everything on
63. 3:06the
64. 3:07line even so he threw caution to the
65. 3:09wind just as parents often do to save
66. 3:12their
67. 3:13children and so he did and Jesus
68. 3:18responded to jarus
69. 3:20compassionately after Jesus received the
70. 3:22news that his daughter had died the
71. 3:24disciple tried to Scuttle his visit to
72. 3:27jus' house but Jesus overr
73. 3:30them as he went Jesus reassured jerus
74. 3:34Don't Be Afraid just have
75. 3:38faith to his credit jerus took Jesus at
76. 3:41his word he
77. 3:43believed raising up jer's daughter Jesus
78. 3:46wielded the power of God over life and
79. 3:49death everyone including Jesus's closest
80. 3:52followers were
81. 3:54astounded we can all imagine that Jesus
82. 3:57began to follow Jesus that same same day
83. 4:01right then and there he gave his life to
84. 4:05Christ along the way to jerus his house
85. 4:08a woman with heres approaches
86. 4:11Jesus her particular Affliction not only
87. 4:14drained her strength but also rendered
88. 4:16her unclean under the law of Moses and
89. 4:19this meant that she was something of an
90. 4:22outcast uh marginalized from people
91. 4:26moreover she had spent her money on
92. 4:28doctors who wen't on were unable to cure
93. 4:33her unlike jaras she did not make a
94. 4:36direct request to
95. 4:38Jesus rather because of her lowly status
96. 4:42she tried to approach Jesus
97. 4:45anonymously with fear and
98. 4:48trembling in her desperation she plunges
99. 4:52through the crowd confident that Jesus
100. 4:55would be able to cure her if only she
101. 4:58could just get near very close to him to
102. 5:01touch his
103. 5:03clothes the moment she did so she was
104. 5:06indeed cure on the spot and Jesus did
105. 5:10not let the moment pass Jesus asked who
106. 5:13has touched him because he wanted to
107. 5:15speak to her he told her to have courage
108. 5:19and that it was her faith that saved
109. 5:23her what these two figures in the
110. 5:25gospels teach us about entrusting our
111. 5:28daily anxiety to the Lord Jesus but we
112. 5:32know what it is to wake up in the middle
113. 5:34of night with worry about the health of
114. 5:37a loved one perhaps a husband or wife or
115. 5:40a child or a
116. 5:41parent we know what it's like to Grapple
117. 5:44with insoluble problems we might try
118. 5:48other things to distract us we might eat
119. 5:53things that we shouldn't we should we we
120. 5:56might Eng engage in self-medicating
121. 6:00eting or a whole range of other
122. 6:02unhealthy
123. 6:04ways what we really need to do is to
124. 6:07approach Jesus with faith a faith that
125. 6:10is humble a faith that is strong sounds
126. 6:14simple doesn't
127. 6:17it but Jesus but our experience teaches
128. 6:20us there are roadblocks to our
129. 6:23approaching Jesus one of our biggest
130. 6:26roadblocks is
131. 6:28fear not holy fear not a sense of wonder
132. 6:31and awe before God's power but rather an
133. 6:34Unholy fear that paralyzes us that stops
134. 6:38us in our
135. 6:40tracks such fear crowds out faith and
136. 6:43convinces us that not even the Lord can
137. 6:46help
138. 6:48us at other times we may think that the
139. 6:50Lord Jesus will not listen to us in our
140. 6:52needs because we have neglected our
141. 6:54spiritual life or that we are caught up
142. 6:56in some
143. 6:57sin or perhaps we might believe the
144. 7:01enemy believe the lies of the enemy and
145. 7:04we may feel Unworthy of his love if only
146. 7:07we knew how much the Lord wants to hear
147. 7:09from us if only we realize how much the
148. 7:12Lord wants to heal
149. 7:14us for God does not spurn a humble and
150. 7:18contrite
151. 7:20heart so what jarus in the woman in
152. 7:24today's Gospel teach us is
153. 7:27this the way to experience is Jesus's
154. 7:30saving power is to reject
155. 7:33fear I've been highlighting that in the
156. 7:36last couple Sundays in my
157. 7:39homilies it's been the theme for the
158. 7:41last several weeks the opposite of faith
159. 7:45is not
160. 7:46questioning the opposite of faith is
161. 7:51fear the gospel this Sunday is teaching
162. 7:53us to approach Jesus with a faith that
163. 7:55is both humble and strong to embrace our
164. 7:59faith a deeply personal faith that comes
165. 8:02from a living contact an encounter with
166. 8:04a living person and that is Jesus
167. 8:07Christ and all of us can have Living
168. 8:10contact with Jesus when we spend time
169. 8:12each day in prayer for conversation with
170. 8:15the Lord when we read the scriptures and
171. 8:18we let the voice of Jesus resonate in
172. 8:21our hearts when we approach the Lord in
173. 8:23the sacrament of reconciliation and ask
174. 8:26to be healed of our sins when we receive
175. 8:29the Lord in the Eucharist with gratitude
176. 8:32and
177. 8:33worthiness and with deep joy for having
178. 8:37received the
179. 8:38Lord then we realize our troubles and
180. 8:41worries can actually be like a key that
181. 8:44opens the heart of the Lord the Lord who
182. 8:47loves us so
183. 8:51deeply the Lord whose love is stronger
184. 8:53than sin and more powerful than
185. 8:56death when that realization draws upon
186. 8:59on us our problems may not vanish
187. 9:02instantly but we do find the wisdom and
188. 9:04strength to address them and in the
189. 9:06process Jesus gives us that peace which
190. 9:09is beyond all
191. 9:12telling so my brothers and sisters again
192. 9:15this Sunday the Lord is teaching us a
193. 9:17very important
194. 9:19lesson approaching Jesus with a strong
195. 9:22and humble Faith like that of jaras and
196. 9:25the woman we find the freedom to pray
197. 9:29as did the great spiritual Master St
198. 9:32theres of Avala who said let nothing
199. 9:35disturb you let nothing frighten you all
200. 9:39things are passing away God never
201. 9:43changes patient obtains all things
202. 9:47Whoever has God lacks nothing God Alone
203. 9:53suffices amen amen