Homily for Friday of the 23^rd week of OT – 12 Sept. 2025

Lk 6:39-45

Homily

          This Gospel text is part of Jesus' talk to the crowd, which corresponds to Matthew's "Sermon on the Mount". (In Luke Jesus is not on the mountain, but in a "flat place"). We have already heard several parts of that sermon in the Gospel readings of the last few weeks.

10 September 2025 -- Wednesday of the ^23rd week in Ordinary Time

Col 3, 1-11; Luke 6, 20-26

Homily

The question of happiness and unhappiness is as old as the hills. From the very beginning of Genesis, we read of misfortune, the fruit of sin, which deprives the man and woman created in God's image and sharing his eternal happiness of happiness. Cursed is the serpent who deceived them; cursed is the ground on which it crawls and which they will have to cultivate to obtain their food; cursed is Cain, who killed his brother and, finally, later cursed are all those who attack the people God chose for himself. (The whole of the Old Testament is peppered with such ‘curses’).

11 September 2025 – Thursday of the 23^rd week of OT

Lk 6, 27-38

Homily

Reading these recommendations of Jesus, we would almost want to say to him: ‘But surely you can't be serious! Do you really want us to act so naively? To let ourselves be crushed without defending ourselves and even go so far as to love those who hate us? Is that possible?

9 septembre 2025 ; mardi, semaine 23

Col 2, 6-15 ; Lc 6, 12-19

HOMÉLIE

      « Si vous voulez prier, dit Jésus à ses disciples, entrez dans votre cellule, fermez la porte et priez votre Père en secret ».

      Jésus lui-même faisait souvent quelque chose de très similaire. Il se rendait souvent dans la montagne, surtout pendant la nuit, pour prier son Père en secret. Et si vous examinez tous les cas où il le fait dans l'Évangile, vous verrez que c'est presque toujours avant de prendre une décision importante. Nous en avons un exemple dans l'Évangile d'aujourd'hui. Avant de choisir ses douze apôtres, Jésus passe toute une nuit à prier dans la montagne.

10 septembre 2025 -- mercredi de la 23^ème semaine du Temps Ordinaire

Col 3, 1-11; Luc 6, 20-26

H O M É L I E

          La question du bonheur et du malheur est vieille comme le monde. Dès le début de la Genèse apparaît le malheur, fruit du péché, qui vient priver du bonheur l’homme et la femme créés à l’image de Dieu, et partageant son bonheur éternel. Maudit est le serpent qui les a trompés ; maudit est le sol sur lequel il rampe et qu’ils auront à cultiver pour se procurer leur nourriture ; maudit est Caïn, qui a tué son frère et, finalement, plus tard maudits sont tous ceux qui s’en prennent au peuple que Dieu s’est choisi. (Tout l’Ancien Testament est émaillé de telles « malédictions »).

September 9, 2025; Tuesday, week 23

Col 2, 6-15 ; Lc 6, 12-19

HOMILY

          “If you want to pray, Jesus said to his disciples, enter your cell, shut the door and pray your father in secret”.

          Jesus himself often did something very similar. He often went to the mountain, specially during the night, to pray his Father in secret. And if you examine all the instances in the Gospel when he does that, you will see that it is almost always before making an important decision. We have an example in today's Gospel. Before choosing his twelve apostles, Jesus spends a whole night of prayer on the mountain.