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04/05/2025

Homily for the Third Sunday of Easter, Year C,

Acts 5:27-32,40-41
Apocalypse 5:11-14
John 21:1-19

In today’s gospel we continue hearing the stories of Christ’s appearances after the resurrection. Two things are central to all of these stories. The first is that Jesus was still recognisably the same person, He still bore the signs of his crucifixion, He still ate and drank with his disciples, but He was also fundamentally different. He was not just resuscitated. He was raised to a whole new kind of existence.

This tension, of being the same but different, is clearly shown in today’s gospel story. At the centre of this episode is the most normal and human thing in the world. Jesus is having a BBQ breakfast, on the beach with His friends – but this is Jesus after He has risen from the dead. That makes a difference, and that difference is seen in the two stories either side of this BBQ.

In the lead up to this passage, the apostles have been told to go to Galilee and to wait for Jesus. While they are waiting, they do what fishermen do. They go fishing. However, they fish all night and catch nothing. In the morning, a figure on the shore yells at them to put their nets out on the other side. They do so and the catch of fish is enormous.

As soon as this happens, John says “It is the Lord”. Now, he knows this because this has happened once before. In his gospel account, Luke tells us of a very similar incident that happened right at the start of Jesus’ ministry when He was calling His disciples. Only then it was a bit of a disaster. The nets were tearing and the boats were nearly sinking.

Now, however, in the presence of the risen Jesus, Peter is able to gather all the fish to shore and, even though it contains a large number of big fish, the net does not tear. Scholars tell us that John makes a point of this so that we might see in it a promise: a promise that, no matter what the strain, God’s church will never fail. Christ is risen. The victory has already been won. I think that’s an encouraging thing to know.

The presence of the risen Christ changes people, too. Which is why our story today seems to be almost as much about Peter as it is about Jesus. In the story in Luke’s gospel, Peter’s reaction to the miraculous catch was to beg Jesus to leave him because he was a sinful man: to draw away from God in shame and fear. Now, however, as soon as he realises who it is on the shore, he’s off. He’s not waiting for the boat. Impetuous as ever, He jumps in and swims and runs in his eagerness to get to Jesus.

Not that Peter’s sins are simply forgotten. No. Something far more wonderful happens. They are forgiven; point by point, they are forgiven, when, after the BBQ, Jesus takes Peter aside for a little chat.

The ‘same but different’ theme plays out here as well. during the last supper, Peter pleaded to follow Jesus and promised to lay down his life for Him. In one of the saddest lines in the gospels, Jesus then tells Peter that rather than lay down his life, before the morning comes Peter will have denied even knowing Jesus three times.

Now he is asked three times, “Do you love me?” Peter, of course, twigs to what is going on and gets upset. Don’t we all when presented with our weakness and failure? however, as he answers each time, “You know I love you”, he is commissioned to feed and care for the church: to provide the leadership that he had failed to provide before the crucifixion.

Then, his request at the last supper was rejected in sorrow. Now, his wish is granted, and Peter is called to follow his God. The promise that he made at the last supper, which failed through human weakness, will now be fulfilled through the grace of the risen Christ. He will lay down his life for love of Jesus, just as Jesus laid down His life for love of him. In our first reading, we hear that in the time that followed, this simple fisherman, who once ran away in fear, now has the courage and eloquence to stand up even to the learned and powerful men of the Sanhedrin.

There is one more important thing to notice. A common thread in all of these post-resurrection stories in that of a meal. Here, with the bread and the fish, it recalls the feeding of the five thousand, one of the great moments of eucharistic teaching. You see, here John is not just looking back, but also pointing forward. He is indicating to us how we too can encounter the risen Christ.

Here on this altar, in a few minutes, bread and wine will be changed to become the very body and blood of Jesus. The risen Christ will be present here just as surely as He was on that shore in Galilee. Today, we will have opportunity to encounter Him in the most personal and intimate way possible - in communion.

Will we recognise Him, the same but different, in the form of bread and wine? Will we come forward to meet Him in joy, and open our hearts to be transformed by that encounter as Peter was? Will we face our sins with Him and accept His forgiveness, and will we also lay down our lives for love of Him, just as He has laid down His life for love of us? If only we would allow ourselves to be transformed by the power of this encounter with the risen Christ, then we would be able to live such lives as would transform the world. This, and nothing less, is what we have been called to do.

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20/04/2025

Homily for Easter Sunday

You know, the first command in the Bible is: Let there be light! With that command, out of nothingness, the universe was called into being. This command still echoes through the universe, sustaining everything that exists: stars and galaxies, mountains and planets, trees and sparrows.

Yet, for many, the fear of that primordial, dark nothing remains. Today, however, we have banished that fear, carrying the light of Christ into a darkened world.

In the prologue of John’s Gospel we read: The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.

There is a darkness which grips many in our world today. Not the darkness of sin or ignorance, not even the darkness hatred and violence, although these are ever present, but a deeper darkness, one that is the root cause of so much despair and of so much of the evil that men do.

It is this, the idea that when I die, I will simply cease to exist, that my only destiny is to be a co**se rotting in a grave. It is the fear of that original nothingness from which we were called by God’s command. For those who live in this darkness, only this world matters because this world is all there is.

This means that greed is good, and selfish fulfilment is the main aim in life – what else could it be? The highest value that anything can have is utility. In this darkness there is no love or hope, only power and dominance, only despair and fear.

On this day, however, the light of Christ has driven out this darkness, replaced despair with hope, and selfish isolation with love. The earth is indeed glad as glory floods her.

One thing we should be clear about. Darkness is not a real thing – not physical darkness nor this spiritual darkness. Darkness is a negative. It has no substance. It is simply the absence of light. So too the spiritual darkness that grips the hearts of so many today.

It is a lie, brought about by the absence of God’s truth and love, the absence of His life and grace, the absence of His light. Put simply, this darkness comes from either not hearing or not accepting, the gospel, the good news, of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The good news is this: the light of Christ shines out in the darkness, dazzling in its brightness. Death has no power. The tomb is empty. Christ is risen from the dead.

Once, from a garden, by the actions of a man called Adam, the world was plunged into darkness. Now, from a garden by the action of God, it is bathed in light. Once the man Adam reached out to a tree and brought about sin and death. Now, on calvary, from a very different tree, Christ has brought life and grace. Once, from utter emptiness, God called forth our mortal life. Now, from the empty tomb, God calls us to eternal life.

Not just us, mind you. Not just we who are gathered here – but all the world. Today, here in the church, we light our pascal candle, our great symbol of the light of Christ.

Everyone who comes to be baptised will be given a candle lit from this candle and will be told that they have been made into light by Christ. Now, there are not many lights. There is only the light of Christ. This light, each of us received at baptism. It was given to us so that this light might shine out in the world.

We are the light of Christ. We are made into His light by grace. Shine out brightly. Shine out with joy. Now the dark dream of death and emptiness has vanished in the clear light of the Easter dawn.

Exalt! Christ is risen. He is risen indeed.

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18/04/2025

KYRIE

In the dark of my knee bended stillness
A single drop of blood falls to the ground,
Red against the grey stone
At the foot of a tree on a distant hill.

Lord have mercy!

This means more than the deep of the world,
More than my mind can know.
Here is my end and my beginning –
All my hope and my despair.

Christ have mercy!

My tears wash the blood from the stone
As once they washed the dust from His feet.
I do not dare to raise my eyes.
I could not bare to look at Him.

Lord have mercy!

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17/04/2025

Gethsemane

In the sweet rhythm and scent
Of the altar’s prayer,
Time and space dissolve and flee,
And I am here and there
As we gather to you.

In prideful humility I bow my head
But swift and strong still you gather me
And gifting, bath me richer than beauty
More real than the rock,
Larger than mountains
Deeper than the night between the stars.

So, I wait with you in the garden, and I say –
Though all the world may fail you
I will never fail you,
And yet I do,
And yet I do,
And yet I do again.

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13/04/2025

Homily for Palm Sunday

Luke 19:28-40
Luke 22:14-23:56

This morning we hailed our king with palm branches and song – just as they did in Jerusalem all those years ago. It is, however, worth remembering that those palms and those songs were a lie. The same crowd that shouted His praise as He entered the city would, just a few days later, be calling for Him to be crucified.

So too with us. Each year on Palm Sunday we welcome Jesus as our king with palms; each Easter Sunday we again make our promises to Him; and each Ash Wednesday we are marked with the ashes of those palms and those promises. We fail Him – and yet it is into that very failure that He pours His love and forgiveness.

You see, there was nothing phoney about His entry into Jerusalem. He came to His city as its king. He rode on a donkey, fulfilling all the old prophecies. In effect, He was saying; “Here I am. This is who I am. I am your king. The messiah you have waited for for so long.”
He was not, however, the type of king or messiah that they wanted, and the Temple authorities did not hear of His coming with joy. Rather, they saw it as a challenge to their own authority and, proclaiming Caesar to be their only king, they handed Him over to the Romans and had Him killed.

The tales of King Arthur and his knights of the round table end when Arthur is killed on the battlefield. The king is dead, the story is over. When Richard III was unhorsed and killed at the Battle of Boswell Field, the House of York was defeated, the reign of the Plantagenets came to an end, and the War of the Roses was over. Normally, in both history and in legend, the death of the king signals defeat. It brings the story to an end. And yet, in the case of our king that isn’t true.

In fact, the opposite is true. It is by His very death on the cross that our king has won. It is by allowing his body to be taken and broken, to be tortured and pierced, that our king has gained His victory. What sort of victory can be won that way? Certainly, not a victory of worldly power or wealth. Rather, a victory of love and mercy.

On the cross, God, who is love, has entered into the very depths of our human suffering and still from the depths of that pain was able to love and forgive: to love and forgive those who had abandoned Him, those who were torturing him – even those who killed Him. God is love and His love knows no limits. He holds nothing back.

So, this is not just the horrible death of a good man. It was divine love itself that, on the cross, suffered pain and death and in doing so changed the world. Because now, when we are hurt, He is there in our pain: sharing in our suffering and filling it with His love. It is, perhaps, good for us to remember this at a time when we watch while, across the world, literally thousands of people suffer and die – from disease, from famine, from war. Our God is not a distant, abstract ideal off in some vague never never land, nor is He a stern judge, seated on a high throne. Our God is one who suffers with us, a man of sorrows and familiar with pain.

He is Emmanuel, God with us. He is there, suffering, in those overcrowded hospital wards, in the apartment buildings destroyed by missiles. He is there mourning in those makeshift morgues or by the unmarked graves in the forest. He knows the fear and worry of those who sit in makeshift accommodation, their homes destroyed by flood or fire, wondering what the future may bring.

Even into the very depths of our sin, in our deepest darkness, He reaches out to us, with love and forgiveness, and offers us a place in His kingdom. In His pain, God has given meaning to our suffering. In His dying, He has changed death so that now even death itself is filled with love and hope.

Mind you, Jesus really suffered on the cross and He really died. In fact, He died in agony. Pain, and fear, and grief - these are all still very real. Suffering is still very much a part of our human experience, and it is a bitter thing. It’s just that He suffers with us and we suffer now, always, in the context of His resurrection.

I pointed out at the start that we are marked on Ash Wednesday with the ashes of our Easter promises. Well, we are also marked, on Easter Sunday, with the joy and hope of the resurrection. Even in the darkest of times, these remain.

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10/04/2025

PASSION SUNDAY

I did not see you there, Lord
Hanging beneath you purple shroud.
I did not see you thirsty
In the dry dust of drought.
I did not see you hungry
As I broke my Lenten fast.

I did not know you there, Lord
Covered in that purple cloth.
I did not know you on the street corner
Lost and confused.
I did not know you in the shelter,
Driven from your home.

I did not notice you there, Lord
Hidden beneath your purple cover.
Yet it was you who washed my feet,
Dirty with the grime of the world.
It was you who threw your cloak over me
To hide my naked shame.

Yet I did not see you there, Lord.
You were hidden from
My uncaring eyes.

PASSION SUNDAY

I did not see you there, Lord
Hanging beneath you purple shroud.
I did not see you thirsty
In the dry dust of drought.
I did not see you hungry
As I broke my Lenten fast.

I did not know you there, Lord
Covered in that purple cloth.
I did not know you on the street corner
Lost and confused.
I did not know you in the shelter,
Driven from your home.

I did not notice you there, Lord
Hidden beneath your purple cover.
Yet it was you who washed my feet,
Dirty with the grime of the world.
It was you who threw your cloak over me
To hide my naked shame.

Yet I did not see you there, Lord.
You were hidden from
My uncaring eyes.

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05/04/2025

Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year C

Isaiah 43:16-21
Philippians 3:8-14
John 8:1-11

Many of us will have had the experience of being required to read the same bedtime story over and over again. Or of a toddler demanding to see their favourite movie – again. I know that for a while Mary Poppins was on high rotation at our place. It seems that some stories are just too good to let go.

Well, our gospel story today is a bit like that. You see, it isn’t in the earliest versions of John’s gospel and its style and language don’t match. In fact, its style is far more like that of Luke, but it doesn’t really fit structurally into Luke’s narrative.

It seems that this was a story that was well known and loved in the early church but one which none of the gospel writers included in their texts. St John tells us that there were many such stories, and it seems that this was one of them.

Yet the Christian Church would not let this one go. It kept it and looked for a way to preserve it until finally, sometime in the third century, it found its way into its current place in John’s gospel – where it does fit well in the narrative structure.

The question is; why? Why did the early Christian community hold on so tenaciously to this story? Was it just because this is a nice story about Jesus forgiving a sinner? No, I don’t think so. I think it was because this story gives us a key to understand the Christian approach to living justly and ethically.

The story sees the Pharisees setting a trap for Jesus. As they see it, He has only two alternatives. He can say ‘Yes, stone her’; in which case He would be breaking Roman law and could reported for inciting riot and murder; or He could say ‘No, you must let her live’; in which case He could be accused of disrespecting the law and the prophets. Jesus, of course, chooses the third alternative; the one they didn’t know about.

You see, they were using this poor woman and her situation to try and discredit Jesus. To them, this was an opportunity, and the woman was a weapon. They weren’t really concerned about the law. They just wanted to get at Jesus, and they certainly didn’t care about the woman.

Jesus, however, cared deeply about both. They were trying to get Him to choose between the law and mercy or, more accurately, between condemnation and indifference. He chose, rather, the way of love.

He upheld the law, not only by telling the woman to sin no more but also by pointing out the sinfulness of the mob gathered to stone her. Yet He doesn’t condemn them, and he doesn’t condemn her. Rather, He shows her God’s love and forgiveness.

There is no contradiction in this, Jesus is not balancing two opposites, because the law of God is not a set of arbitrary rules designed to limit and control us, as is all too often the case in human law. Rather, God’s law is fundamental, unchanging, and objective; built into the fabric of the universe.

Obeying it is what leads to human flourishing and happiness. Instead of limiting us, it gives us freedom. Sin, the disobeying God’s law, leads only to misery, both for ourselves and others. It limits us and holds us captive. To proclaim God’s law then, to hold fiercely to His truth, is an act of love. To fail to do so is, at best, indifference.
Yet in proclaiming God’s law we must not judge or condemn anyone. If God’s law is love, then it can only be proclaimed in love – never in condemnation. We must not ever judge others. Why not? Well, Jesus gives us the answer in our story today.

We cannot stand in judgment of those who sin because we ourselves are sinners. Who among us could’ve picked up that first stone? I know that I, most definitely, could not have.

Here then is the key to our approach to living justly. Out of love, we uphold and proclaim God’s law. Out of love, we respect and love even those who disagree with us; even those who sin and sin egregiously.

We are all made in the image and likeness of God and, while we may all fall short of His commands, we are all, each one of us, precious to Him and loved by Him.

Before the goodness of God, even the most revered and respected bishop or monk is still a sinner in need of God’s mercy and, in the light of God’s grace, even the vilest sinner is a potential saint in formation.

One final thought. Imagine the wonder and joy of the woman as she says; “No one, Sir.” A few minutes ago, she had been shamed, mistreated, and threatened with death, all in front of a curious crowd. Now, she was alone with Jesus and in Him encountered the love and mercy of God.

This same joy and wonder is ours each time we go to confession, encounter that same love and mercy, and, in effect, hear those same words: ‘Neither do I condemn you, go, and do not sin anymore.’

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08/03/2025

First Sunday of Lent, Year C.
Romans 10:8-13
Luke 4:1-13

I’m sure that many of you will have read The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. If you haven’t, that could perhaps be a suggestion for your Lenten reading. It is a unique work. In it, Lewis used the form of an epistolatory novel to examine the ways in which the devil cleverly crafts his temptations to suit each individual and their situation. Well, in today’s gospel, his target is Jesus and it’s one of the most fascinating insights into our lord’s humanity.
This passage follows His baptism in the Jordan by John the Baptist when something astounding had happened: the Holy Spirit had descended on Him as a dove and the Father had spoken, saying “This is my beloved son…”
Now, Jesus was God, and from his earliest moments on earth, he must’ve had this instinctive understanding that he was filled with the Spirit and had a unique relationship to the Father. He was also fully human, however, and in His human nature He had to work out, in a human way, what all this meant. So, He retreats into the desert, to be alone and to get things sorted out in His head. He was the son of God. How was He to do the will of His Father?
It’s here that the devil then tries to corrupt and disrupt this mission before it had even begun. He tries to get Jesus, in His human nature, to act in a way that was contrary to His divine nature. This would have set up an impossible contradiction and all of reality would have been shaken.
The first temptation is deceptively simple: use your power for your own good, centre your mission on yourself – but God does not act that way. God is love and always reaches out in love. Jesus was divine love in the flesh, and He would keep nothing for Himself, pouring out his very life for love of us. This temptation, though, has almost become the battle cry of our age: self-fulfilment, self-realisation, the rights of the individual, realise your potential, you’re worth it! It’s all about me! What I want. What I need.
While we all have very legitimate needs that must be met and rights that must be respected, perhaps we need to turn away from this relentless focus on the self and listen instead to scripture: to every word that comes from the mouth of God. There we will find a very different message, one that calls us, by the grace of God, to live in the loving service of others.
The second temptation is the most glamorous. Glamour, of course, comes from an Irish word and it means something that is false, something that seems more beautiful than it is. In its Irish roots, it was a kind of spell used to deceive. Something to remember when next you read about the glamorous lives of the rich and famous. In this second temptation. Jesus is shown all the kingdoms of the world; all their power, all their riches and their glory. All the things our world idolises, all the things that fill our magazines, our newspapers, and our screens: all the glamour of the rich and the famous.
You notice that the devil claims all this as his own and Jesus doesn’t bother to dispute his ownership. All you have to do is to bow down and worship this glamour: to give your soul, your very self; and if you are prepared to pay the price of everything that you are – then the devil claims he will give all of this to you. Mind you, personally, I wouldn’t trust him.
But all this is false anyway. It was God who made us, who called us into being. It is He who loves us and only in Him can we find our rest and our destiny. As St. Augustine said, Thou hast made us for thyself, O God, and our souls are restless until they rest in thee. All that is good, all that is beautiful, all that is true belongs to God and it is Him and Him alone that we must worship. It is Him that we must love. Everything else is a lie. Jesus, the divine word incarnate in human form, knew this in the very core of His being.
The third temptation is the most subtle, and the most devastating. It is the temptation not to have faith and trust in God. A few years ago, I was at a talk about faith in Sydney by a very learned professor who said he found it easy to have faith in something like the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Well, with all due respect to the good professor, that doesn’t need faith. You can see the thing. You can walk across it. It’s made out of stone and steel. Faith isn’t needed when all your senses tell you that something is there, when all the evidence agrees.
Faith comes in when the senses fail, when we are unsure, when there is no reason to believe EXCEPT the trust you have in the other person. When we say in the creed, I believe in God the Father, we’re not just saying that we accept that He exists. We’re saying that we believe in Him, that, out of love, we place our trust in Him.
Now, trust and love are not things that can be measured in a laboratory or put to the test. Trust that demands evidence is not trust. Love that demands proof is not love. Jesus’ love for His Father and trust in Him were absolute and unconditional.
Faith and trust, love and hope, believing from the heart: these are the keys which St Paul tells us lead to our salvation, lead us to God. Faith and trust - there are times when we need these desperately, because the path we must walk can be fearful, dark and desolate. Times when, without faith, we would not dare to take another step.
You see, the life of faith isn’t something comfortable, something carefully settled and planned out. No, it’s a great adventure into the unknown, into the wild, where we can only walk with confidence because we trust in Jesus as our guide.
We now at the start of the forty days of lent. The number forty is, of course, very symbolic. It rained for forty days in Noah’s time when God remade the world. Moses was on Mount Sinai with God for forty days, before he brought down the law. God’s people wandered in the desert for forty years before entering the Promised Land. Elijah travelled to the mountain for forty days before becoming the great prophet of Israel. For forty days Jesus fasted in the desert before starting His mission.
Now we have the forty days of this lent to reflect and meditate on where God is calling us to be, on how He is calling us to love and serve.
Do not be distracted or diverted by the lies of the devil. God is calling you to glory.

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16/02/2025

Homily for the Sixth Sunday, Year C

Jeremiah 17:5-8
1 Corinthians 15:12,16-20
Luke 6:17,20-26

You know, the way the readings are arranged in our lectionary, the first reading is often the key to understanding the gospel, it gives an Old Testament context, which is, of course, the same context from which and to which, Jesus spoke. This is not always clear, but it is very clear in our readings today.

In our first reading today, the Prophet Jeremiah draws a very stark contrast. A life lived without God is like a dry, parched desert while a life lived with God is like the green and pleasant banks of a river.

Note that even if good comes to those living without God, they can’t receive it - “He is like dry scrub in the wastelands: if good comes, he has no eyes for it”.

While if trials and difficulty come to those who put their trust in the Lord, they have the strength not only to endure but to grow. They are “like a tree by the waterside…its foliage stays green…and (it) never ceases to bear fruit”.

One is cursed, the other blessed.

This same theme is picked up and expanded in today’s gospel. Our reading today is Luke’s version of, perhaps, Jesus’ most famous teaching. It is normally known as the sermon on the mount; from the longer account given in Matthew’s gospel.

In Luke’s gospel, however, it is given as Jesus comes down from the mountain where He has been teaching His disciples. He comes down to a piece of level ground where a large crowd is gathered.
This, quite intentionally, calls to mind Moses descending from Mt. Horeb, bringing the law of God to the gathered people. Here, however, Jesus is not bringing the law, that had already been given, but rather a whole new approach to life and to happiness, an approach that will lead to the Kingdom of God.

Here, like Jeremiah, Jesus contrasts two ways of living. One leads to happiness and the other to sorrow. This is often seen as a reference to the last judgment where those who have lived good lives will be rewarded and the others punished.

This is certainly a valid understanding. God is merciful but He is also just. Make no mistake, there will be judgement, there will be justice for all those who have been mistreated, driven from their homes, or forced to go hungry. There is more to this than a simple warning about the end times, however. Here Jesus contrasts choosing to live as a son or daughter of the Kingdom of God with choosing to live by the values of materialism and sensuality.

One will be blessed, the other cursed.

This is not because God is being harsh and judgmental, but it is simply a natural result of the choices made. Our choices have consequences.

If you are rich and have your fill now; that is, if you fill yourself up with the things of this world, if these are all you seek, then the deepest longings of your soul will go unfulfilled and, however much you have, at the deepest level of your being, you will always be hungry.

If you laugh now, if people think well of you now; that is, if you are satisfied with yourself and the things you love in this world, then you will mourn and weep: not because God is punishing you, but because the satisfactions of this world will pass away. Indeed, this world itself will pass away. Your laughter will be temporary and ephemeral because it is based on something that is temporary and ephemeral. The fame of this world most certainly is. Recently we have seen many examples of how fleeting the fame and honour of this world can be and how quickly it can turn to infamy!

Please note that Jesus isn’t saying ‘Don’t be happy’ in any of this. Quite the opposite. Joy is a gift from God and there is no mandate for a Christian to be gloomy. Being miserable is not a virtue and a sour face is not a sign of holiness.

Indeed, the joy and happiness of a Christian life is so deep and lasting that it can withstand all sorts of trials. It persists even when grief and sorrow scourge our heart. Even when we are afraid and cry out in our fear. As the old song says: Our fathers, chained in prisons dark were still in heart and conscience free.

It is deep and lasting because it doesn’t depend on anything in this passing, temporary world. It comes from something that is deep and lasting, something that no trial or sorrow can reach, that no fear can threaten to take away – the grace and the love of God.
That is why we are rich even if we seem poor, why we are happy even if we are hated and abused, because the riches of the kingdom of God are ours and the deepest longings of our heart are satisfied. As St. Paul reminds us today, we are the children of the resurrection, an easter people, and our reward will indeed be great in heaven.

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