This weekend, I had the flu, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Needless to say my homily preparation wasn’t the best. Thankfully, there are good priests out there with other homilies. When you cite something it isn’t plagiarized, right?
Father Robert Barron has a great ministry online, Word On Fire. His youtube clips, numbering over 200, are amazing, covering popular culture on many topics. His audio homilies are also great. This weekend I used his homily on Jonah. Listen to it here.
To summarize Father Barron’s homily, and my own sickly effort, I would focus on four lessons when reading the book of Jonah.
- God’s will always seems difficult.
- We can’t escape from God.
- When we do God’s will He always provides fruit- even fruit we don’t expect.
- We must be on guard against self-righteousness.
God’s will seems difficult because it calls us beyond our nature. That is in the meaning of the word itself: supernatural, above our nature. A good way of wondering whether something is God’s will or plan for us is to ask: “Which one seems impossible to me, by myself?”
