Anecdotes – 32nd Sunday (C)
Featured anecdotes / illustrations from Fr. Tony’s Homilies, a popular website, accompanied with related YouTube videos and Life Messages. Includes Jokes of the Week.
Featured anecdotes / illustrations from Fr. Tony’s Homilies, a popular website, accompanied with related YouTube videos and Life Messages. Includes Jokes of the Week.
KINGDOM WARRIORS EMMANUEL (4:43) – Discover how these twin babies reveal the mysteries and proof of the existence of God! What a miracle testimony it is!
In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”
The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “ I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouth. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied,” That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous ! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted,” Well I think there is something, and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover, if there is life, then why has no one ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere. ”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said.” She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see her, so it is only logical that she doesn’t exit.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and listen, you can hear Her loving voice, calling.”
32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C)
There are no riddles with Christ because He will always tell the truth and no one can outsmart Jesus because He is God! 2 NextLet’s start with some fun; many of you will recognize them right away, so if that is you, please don’t answer.
These were riddles between Bilbo Baggins and Gollum in the book The Hobbit!
32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C)
In the 1950’s, the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was an exuberant, fast-paced musical about seven brothers on the frontier of the United States who were all looking for brides. Such “commodities” were rare in their part of the world. But, of course, in the end each brother got his bride.
32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year C)
One of the most intense episodes in the film, Romero, was the martyrdom of Lucia, a young beautiful lady who cooperated with Bishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador in his fight for justice for the poor. Lucia, asleep in her room, was abducted from that room at night, and gang-raped, by her captors who brutally cut off her tongue. The government henchmen then brought her to the city dump to be executed. They shoved her to the ground and ordered her to kneel. Lucia defiantly rose from the dump. With dignity, she courageously faced her executioners who shot her to death. While her lifeless body crumpled upon the filthy garbage, the blood of her martyrdom fecundated the community of believers in El Salvador..
1) Sign boards found on church property. A singing group called “The Resurrection” was scheduled to sing at a Church. When a big snowstorm postponed the performance, the pastor fixed the outside sign to read, “The Resurrection is postponed.”
2 When is the Resurrection? A young preacher, very zealous about soul-winning, came upon a farmer working in his field. Being concerned about the farmer’s soul the preacher asked the man, “Are you laboring in the vineyard of the Lord, my good man?” Not even looking at the preacher and continuing his work the farmer replied, “Naw, these are soybeans.” The young, determined preacher tried again asking the farmer, “Are you prepared for the resurrection?” This caught the farmer’s attention and he asked, “When’s it gonna be?” Thinking he had accomplished something the young preacher replied, “It could be today, tomorrow, or the next day.” Taking a handkerchief from his back pocket and wiping his brow, the farmer remarked, “Well, don’t mention it to my wife. She doesn’t get out much and she’ll wanna go all three days.”
3) During a recollection for a group of high school students, a boy voiced a problem: “My eldest brother was born ten years ahead of me, but he died when he was only two years old. My mother died when she was 50 years old. Suppose I die at 60 and then meet my brother and my mother in heaven, would I be older than either of them?”
SOURCE: Fr. Tony’s Homily’s