19th Sunday Ordinary Time

Readings: Wisdom 18.6-9, Hebrews 11.1-2,8-19, Luke 12.32-48

Friends, you and I know what the end is supposed to look like. It's the Kingdom of heaven. But we have to keep that in front of us if we are going to arrive at that goal. I think sometimes then it's important for us to step back for a moment and I think today's Gospel invites us to do just that. Today's Gospel invites us to step back for a moment and remember that we will die. God willing, years from now, but at some point, death will come for all of us. Next, we have to recognize that we become what we repeatedly do. So, if we want to be saints when we die, we have to be saint now. Day in and day out our actions have to such that we are formed into saints. You see I'm afraid, our problem today isn't that our aim is too high and we miss it, I'm afraid that we set the bar too low and we actually achieve it. Part of the challenge for us is to recognise that we are called not just to enjoy this life, but that we are called to be saints and that means hard work. That means the bar has been set extremely high.

In today's busy, even for those of us in the church today who want to live out our faith, there can be a tendency a tendency for us to fall into the trap of seeing our faith as just one more thing on our to do list. But our faith isn't just one more thing our to-do list, it is the lens, the reasons for which we do everything on our list . We are not called to do Catholicism, we are called to be Catholic.

Today's Gospel is a stark reminder of each and every one of us. It's a sign of hope that heaven awaits, but it's also a reminder that it's too important to forget about. Death will come and this life moves way too quickly for us to ever forget about our death or lose our focus on heaven. Let us ask ourselves if I died today would I go to heaven.

Wishing you all, dear parishioners, "Happy Feast" of our Parish Patron Saint St. Dominic.

St. Dominic pray for us!