{"id":6185,"date":"2022-08-26T11:20:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T01:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:20:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T01:20:52","slug":"fr-thomas-homily-for-the-22nd-sunday-in-ordinary-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/fr-thomas-homily-for-the-22nd-sunday-in-ordinary-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr Thomas&#8217; Homily for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:24px;font-style:normal;font-weight:800\"><em>The Humble Will Be Exalted<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been busy lately with birthday parties.\u00a0 All the attention you get and the food you share give you a good feeling.\u00a0 Such celebrations are expressions of us being social creatures.\u00a0 Is that all?\u00a0 The Gospel of today has a little more to tell us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best of joy in life is when you recognise the \u201c<em>nobodies<\/em>\u201d of the community and you invite those on the fringes to celebrate life with you. Jesus said, \u201c<em>When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not ask your friends, brothers, relations or rich neighbours, for fear they repay your courtesy by inviting you in return. No; when you have a party, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; that they cannot pay you back means that you are fortunate<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 There is no greater joy in life than making others grateful to you.\u00a0 That will make your life fuller, not only at a human level, but also at a divine level.\u00a0 A wise and a divinely inspired person will not be looking for places of honour for himself.\u00a0 A true disciple of Christ will not be busy seeking attention for himself.\u00a0 The Gospel truth is that \u201c<em>everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 It is true not just for the life on earth but for the hereafter as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been busy lately with birthday parties.\u00a0 All the attention you get and the food you share give you a good feeling.\u00a0 Such celebrations are expressions of us being social creatures.\u00a0 Is that all?\u00a0 The Gospel of today has a little more to tell us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6186,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions\/6186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}