Fourteenth Sunday in
Ordinary Time
“Go Forth”. The first words we say are “Peace to this
Household.” And that’s the message I
think we want to take with us tonight.
And the peace that Our Lord wants us to bring is twofold.
First of all we need to be
at peace with ourselves. You and I need
to have a right relationship with God first.
You cannot give what you do not have.
So if you and I are not in a right relationship with the Lord, not at
peace with God within ourselves, how are you and I
ever going to be able to pass it on to someone else? So first of all we take a look at ourselves
to say where I am, where am I in my life?
What’s not right? What’s going
wrong? What are the things that I need
to let go of? What do I need to bring
the Lord deep into my life? We get that
straightened out then we can go forth and we can be a people who can bring
peace, compassion, hope, joy, mercy to others.
We come here tonight to this
Eucharist because first of all you and I will get the peace of Jesus Himself in
the Eucharist. Every time we gather here
to celebrate the Eucharist we get the strength, the love, the compassion, the
mercy, the joy that we need. We become
the Lord.
We will go forth from this
Eucharist tonight to be the eyes, ears, the hands, the feet, the presence of
Jesus for one another.
Our world needs you and me
to give and bring. There is a lot of
pain, difficulty, hardship all around us.
You don’t have to look very far to see it.
So let’s bring people some
peace and hope. A very
short, a very simple message.
Bring peace and love because you and I first get it here tonight. Be people of great comfort, of great
compassion because God first gives it to you and me. Let’s pass on what God gives to us, and then
as Jesus says, “The
Wherever you and I go
tonight and throughout this week, we will bring the