Daily HOMILY for August 13, 2019: Tuesday 19th Week of Ordinary Time, Cycle C

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Tuesday 19^th Week in Ordinary Time

Washington Retreat House 

August 13, 2018 

BE LIKE CHILDREN ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Ø  In Gospel passage, J gives us a lesson that is something like a coin; it has two sides to it

Ø  1^sthe calls us to become like little children

Ø  Here not saying we should be childish or pretend that we have a pre-adult innocence or naiveté

Ø  Means become like little child in being humble

Ø  Letting go of pretense we know things we don’t know or see selves completely self-sufficient

Ø  We think we are independent even of God

Ø  What Jesus means by “become as children”

TREAT ALL AS SIGNIFICANT +++++++++++++++++++++

Ø  The flip side of coin is we’re to treat children & those like children — little, the last, the least, and the lost — as significant

Ø  Js’ point = God values each person equally

Ø  In K of G we’re to discount no one and to treat no one as insignificant

Ø  Instead, we’re to value & reach out in special ways to “children” of world, be little by virtue of age or virtue, or significance in eyes of the world

CONCLUSION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Ø  So, a lesson about 

(1)  Who we are to be like – like little children – and

(2)  What we are to do – treat especially the “children” of this world as significant

Ø  To do so is to be living as a member of God’s kingdom

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