4 September 2025 - Thursday of the 22nd week of Ordinary Time
Homily
‘Leaving everything, they followed him.’ This last sentence obviously gives us the key to understanding the passage we have just heard. One cannot attach oneself to Jesus without detaching oneself from everything else. One cannot follow Him without abandoning everything that might hold one back elsewhere. At the beginning of his Gospel, Luke wants to show how the Apostles, and Peter in particular, made this radical break.