Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (3)

Familiarity

represents:

closest

comfortable

know best

fam good,

but something went wrong Gospel

what??

--summarize Gospel--

what went wrong??

certainly not familiarity

blessed be close to G

heaven is to be fam Good Himself

not ‘brothers’ of Jesus thinking of Mary’s perpetual virginity

doesn’t mean bio bros o Christ

won’t go into a long discourse on that, but if want to easily resolve that read St. Jerome’s work on Perpetual Virginity of Mary

what went wrong?

Wrong

Took for granted

when take granted done w/ thing

put it in box to side labled

thinking about in past, because think know all to know

granted=unthankful

if not thankful, never unlock depths of something

not thinking Now,

labeled stored to side

moving on to new thing

Its not that familiar, but unthankful

indeed less familiar w/ b/c unthankful

Thankfulness

use word alot, what?

comes from ‘think’ (look it up!)

specifically “think positively of have now” (not was, not will be, but now)

Secret key to learning

if think positively, think about it

mind what to be full of it

and what is learning but mind drawing closer thing?

Secret key to happiness

how?

what happiness but thinking positively now

what is thankfulness

shockingly, one and the same

So if thankful, then happy

Scripture

perhaps why 1 Thes 5:18. says ‘ALWAYS’ be thankful

not feel, but be, deliberate thought emotions often follow after

All easier said than done right?

Thinking positively NOW

NOW

easy for familiarity to devolve in to taking for granted

after all, always NEW (next weekend, next gadget, next feed)

trained on next rather now

POSITIVE

ther are evil face, how positive about them?

view it in light of Providential God guiding all even the worst events in history for best

requires strong faith

Concl

don’t let familiarity pass to taking for granted

be thankful always

for God normally visits us in what we think is mundane, humble, and familiar

if thankful, wont miss your time of His visitation in the familiar.

Notes:

Me

i. Don’t believe he can heal, and need to see it for themselves b/C THEY THINK THEY KNOW HIM

1. Why? b/c they did not appreciate him who was with them.

2. Arent thankful but presume/familiar

3. Don’t appreciate the present

Probably adapt Luke 4:23 homily OR familiarity homily

Commentators

Pitre

scandal of his humanity (offense: skandaleezo)

brothers:

adelphos (brother but can be cousin)

1 Chronicles 23:21–23 “The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. Eleazar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kinsmen, the sons of Kish, married them [IN SEPTUAGINT SAYS ADELPHOS]. The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.”

James and Joseph identified as another brother

Mark 15:40 “There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,” (but in MK always refer to Mary as mother of Jesus)

syngenes in Mk 6 refers to cousins

jn 19 refers this Mary as wife of Clopas and sister of Virgin Mary

Jesus and Jewish roots of Mary

Jerome