Here Under This Roof
From Fr. Jim Tucker's homily yesterday:
One of the saddest things I ever hear is when someone comes to confession for the first time in many years and starts off by telling me that he's basically a really good person and doesn't really have many sins. I have a pile of my own after 24 hours, yet there are people who think they are immaculate after 24 years. If you don't have any sins, why do you need a Savior? It's in the midst of the falls and failings of your life that you will experience the saving power of Christ.
Here today, under the roof of this church, we have every sort of sinner imaginable. Let me be more specific. We have thieves and robbers. We have people who have killed and wounded other people, we have people who have belonged to gangs and some who still belong. We have liars, cheats, and sharp-tongued old gossips. Bad mothers, fathers who don't support their families, children who are rebellious and disobedient. The proud and arrogant and selfish. Pharisees and hypocrites. The irreligious, the superstitious, people who dabble in brujerÃas and the occult. People who don't pray, who don't come to Mass, who have received the Host while in mortal sin. Right here today we have adulterers, who betray their spouses. Those who, like the Samaritan woman, are cohabiting with people who aren't really their spouses. Those who are impure with people of the opposite sex, those who are impure with people of the same sex, and those who are impure by themselves. Lazy people, greedy people, stingy people, those who won't help their neighbors.
That's who's at Mass today, with your priest in the front of the line.
One of the saddest things I ever hear is when someone comes to confession for the first time in many years and starts off by telling me that he's basically a really good person and doesn't really have many sins. I have a pile of my own after 24 hours, yet there are people who think they are immaculate after 24 years. If you don't have any sins, why do you need a Savior? It's in the midst of the falls and failings of your life that you will experience the saving power of Christ.
Here today, under the roof of this church, we have every sort of sinner imaginable. Let me be more specific. We have thieves and robbers. We have people who have killed and wounded other people, we have people who have belonged to gangs and some who still belong. We have liars, cheats, and sharp-tongued old gossips. Bad mothers, fathers who don't support their families, children who are rebellious and disobedient. The proud and arrogant and selfish. Pharisees and hypocrites. The irreligious, the superstitious, people who dabble in brujerÃas and the occult. People who don't pray, who don't come to Mass, who have received the Host while in mortal sin. Right here today we have adulterers, who betray their spouses. Those who, like the Samaritan woman, are cohabiting with people who aren't really their spouses. Those who are impure with people of the opposite sex, those who are impure with people of the same sex, and those who are impure by themselves. Lazy people, greedy people, stingy people, those who won't help their neighbors.
That's who's at Mass today, with your priest in the front of the line.
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