Homily from 11-3-24

It's National Vocations Awareness Week in the United States, and it's a good thing too!  We need to think about from where our next priests, brothers, sisters, and deacons will come.  In your house, do you talk about the lack of priests and the decreasing numbers of religious brothers and sisters?  Without priests especially, there will be no Eucharist!  But take the question a bit farther, and mix it with our Gospel reading today about the greatest commandments.  If we love God with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, we must also love our neighbors as ourselves.  What does that look like in your world?  Loving God more than anything else can be very tricky in today's world with so much competition for our time and energy.  And the polarization and division in our culture make it very easy not to love our neighbor as we should.  So how is God calling you to serve him today and in your life?