The weather is so hot and often the weather channel is giving us hope saying, "it is going to be raining". Being a weather man is the only job where you can lie and still make good money.
Once after Mass, a faithful lady approached her priest and said, "Father, I hope you didn't take dit personally when my husband walked out during your homily"
The Father said, "It was a little annoyoing and what is going on with him?"
The woman then looked at him and said, "O Father, Mike has been walking in sleep ever since he was a child"
After Mass once a little boy came to the priest and said, "Father, when I big, I am going to give you money to help you". The priest said, "Why do you want to give me money?" The boy said, "Because my dad says that you are the poorest preacher in town".
On May 1st, there happened a huge wildfire that lasted for a month and devestated so many people's lives, businesses, homes and so on. They said that it was the costliest wild fire in Canada. Yes, we know the wild fire that devestated Fort McMurry. Fire has power to create as well as destroy.
There are two types of fire namely given-fire such as sun, fire causes by nature and made-fire such as fire that we make.
Given-fire or made fires, they create lives or destroy them.
Once a man called the fire department and said, "By the way, I have a beautiful front yard landscaped. I have a nice flower bed, a beautiful fish pond with a fountain and a new rose garden". The fire fighter said, "That is right and what does that have to do with the fire service?" The man said, "The house next door is on fire and I don't want you to trample my front yard".
The book of Genesis says that God said, "Let there be light". And there was light. God saw that the light was good and God then separated the light from the darkness and called the light day and the darkness night.
In the New Testament Christ our Lord the giver of light says, " I am the light of the world and anyone follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have light of life.
When John the Baptist saw Christ our Lord coming toward Him, he said of Him, " Behold the lamb of God and I baptize you with water but the one who is coming after me will baptize you with fire and the Holy Spirit".
In today's gospel, Christ our Lord says, "I came to bring fire to the earth and how I wish it were already kindled".
Christ our Lord came to give us all the fire of hope and love namely the Holy Spirit. He came to us so that we would receive life to the fullest and we would know the secret of happiness and joy.
Even after His Resurrection, Christ our Lord prepared His apostles, disciples, followers and others to receive that fire. On the day of Pentecost the fire came on everyone of them and rested on them. That fire of love gave them courage to go everywhere to preach, teach and do miracles in the name of Christ.
As we read especially the Acts of the Apostles, we come to know how the Holy Spirit inspired the apostles to go everywhere and preach the Good News of Salvation.
Once a young woman brought her fiance home to meet her parents. After dinner, her dad looked at the young man and said, "By the way, what is your qualification?" The man said, "I am a theology scholar". That sounds great and will that give my daughter a nice home? the man said, "I will study and God will provide". The dad said, "How will you look after your children?" The man said, "God will provide".
When the man left their place the mother asked her husband, 'So how did it go?" The father said, "It went well and I like him. He has no money or employment plans. But on the other hand, he thinks that I am God".
Today's gospel, the merciful, complassionate and kind Christ our Lord who died for humanity says, "I came not to bring peace to the earth but rather division". From now on five in one household will be divided, Father against son; son against Father; mother against daughter and daughter against daughter in law. There will be division.
Once in police academy... a man was asked, "if you have to arrest your own mother-in-law, what will you do?" The man's answer was highly appriciated and accepted. He said, "I will call for backup".
Christ our Lord talks about the division that would happen because of unconditional love and forgiveness. Yes, as we spread Christianity and its teaching, as we talk about unconditional love and unlimited forgiveness; those who are conditioned and limited and those who are not used to Christian way of non-violence and acceptance, will go away from us. Christ talks about that kind of division and this division will bring back all to one fold and therefore we should not be afraid of spreading love, kindness and forgiveness.
Conclusion: Preaching Christ's message of love and forgiveness means bringing fire to the earth; bringing fire to those who have pyrophobia namely intense fear of fire and make them have fire-walk and help them to over come that intense fear of life, living and death and help them to live in Christ forever.
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