Censings

Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time August 25th, 2019 11:00 AM Saint Anthony’s Cathedral, Detroit, MI Rev. David Justin Lynch Isaiah 66:18-21 | Psalm 117:1-2 Hebrews 12:5-7;11-13 | Luke 13:22-30  + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.            From nineteen sixty-eight to nineteen seventy, I was a student at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Connecticut, where I grew up. At that school, there was a clique of socially adept people, some intelligent, some not, some talented, some not, and some athletic, some not.  What they had in common was they were popular with other students. Others not part of their group looked to them for leadership. This clique consisted of those who won student elections of all kinds regardless of any objective competence for the task for which they were chosen. They were popular. People liked them. Being liked was important to them and to the people who liked...

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year C August 04, 2019 – 10:30 AM Saint Cecilia Catholic Community, Palm Springs, CA Rev. David Justin Lynch Ecclesiastes 1:2;2:22-23 | Psalm 90:3-6;12-17;17 Colossians 3:1-5;9-11 | Luke 12:13-21        + In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN. On our recent train trip home from New Orleans to Los Angeles, Deacon Sharon and I were almost eight hours late because our passenger train had to wait for freight trains to pass. The owner of the train tracks, Union Pacific Railroad, placed a higher priority on the substantial revenue generated by their freight trains over the comparatively slim revenue realized from hosting Amtrak passenger trains. Today’s readings are aimed with surgical precision at the cold-hearted people who run Union Pacific, who favor the inanimate freight and the money it generates over human persons riding passenger trains. Union Pacific showed us w...