Homily Cycle
1 03/22/19 – Our Lady of Perpetual Parish School
Readings:
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/032219.cfm
I want you
to think about two plays this morning: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat and Cinderella.
Cinderella
comes for two Latin words that mean
“the little girl who sits in ashes.” On Ash Wednesday we received ashes on our
foreheads to mark the beginning of Lent, a time to think about how we live our
lives - a time for us prepare for Easter.
Think about
what was said to you as you received your ashes, “Remember you are dust and to
dust you shall return” or “Repent and believe in the Good News”, reminding
us that life here is a preparation for heaven.
Cinderella’s
stepmother and stepsisters treated her poorly, but she only showed kindness to
all, her life reminds us that being
good isn’t easy.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is based
on the Book of Genesis. His jealous
brothers hate the young dreamer. In the
1st reading Joseph’s brothers plot to kill him. Once again we learn being good isn’t easy.
In the
Gospel the owner of the vineyard sent his workers and then his son, but the
tenants beat and killed them, including his son, who represents Jesus, the Son
of God. Again we learn that being good isn’t easy.
Learning
that “being good isn’t easy” is an essential part of the story of Lent to Easter! Before Cinderella puts on the glass slipper,
and all the happiness that follows, before Joseph becomes an advisor to the
Pharaoh – they endure jealously and hardships.
Before Jesus rises from the dead He suffers and dies.
In life we
will have hardships and joys; failures and successes we can offer them to God
and ask God to bless them. Lent is our
training program, for our spiritual year; we are training to become more fully,
the people we were baptized to be - Christian.
I ask you
for the rest of Lent to pray one Our Father and ask God to send His grace upon
someone who has no one to pray for him or her.
May God Be
Praised!
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