29th Sunday Ordinary Time 19 October 2008

This Homily (18 minutes) was given by Fr. Thomas Weise at the 11 am Mass.  "Thus says the Lord to his anointed, Cyrus..." says Isaiah about the king of Persia.  Cyrus sent the Israelites home from Babylon to Jerusalem.  He did God's will even though he was not Jewish.  Who have we discounted because they are not one of us?  "Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God."  We understand that the Government printed the money so it is clearly not ours, but what is not God's.  Everything that I have and everything that I am is God's.  Let us instead live the Gospel with power and the Holy Spirit.

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Readings: Isaiah 45:1, 4-6; Psalm 96; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5b; Matthew 22:15-21