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Friday
19th Week in Ordinary Time
August
18, 2017
TS
ELIOT #1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø Remember reading
poems of T.S. Eliot in college
Ø Most of us have
read something he wrote
Ø In one poem, Eliot
writes this:
Ø “Old men ought to be explorers
Ø Here and there does not matter
Ø We must be still and still moving
Ø Into another intensity
Ø For another union, a deeper communion”
TS
ELIOT #2 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø Let me just repeat
that
Ø “Old men ought to be explorers
Ø Here and there does not matter
Ø We must be still and still moving
Ø Into another intensity
Ø For another union, a deeper communion”
A
DEEPER JOURNEY ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø Eliot’s point
isn’t just about senior citizens
Ø About each of
us–as get older each year, each day
Ø We’re 2B moving
into deeper communion with G
Ø And it’s this
deeper communion w/ G that lies behind each Scripture reading today
JOSHUA
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Ø Joshua in 1st
rdg tries 2 persuade Israelites 2 remember all God has done for them in past
Ø And remembering
that, they’re 2 make good choices in present moment
Ø I.e. they’re 2
live out communion w/ God
Ø Living out of
that, they’ll find strength 2 make good lifestyle choices
Ø And doing that,
very communion w/ G will become deeper
GOSPEL
OF MATTHEW ++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø J in gospel calls
4 faithfulness: faithfulness in marriage 2 one’s spouse, or faithfulness in
life of celibacy to one’s commitment to G
Ø Call: 2B faithful
2 G & each other as G’s been 2 us
Ø That is, we’re 2
live out of R communion w/ G
Ø In living out of
that, we’ll find strength 2B faithful
Ø & doing that,
R comm w/ G will become deeper
CONCLUSION
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø This, of course,
is what Eucharist is all about: R comm w/ G, deepening of that comm &
strength 2 live out of that
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