Today's Homily
On Luke’s gospel today, “will there be only a few saved?” with Jesus saying “I do not know you” to some, our homilist attempted to steer that fine line between presumption and despair. He mentioned how there is much presumption in the modern world, and how many presume on Gods's mercy and somehow think Him incapable of rejecting anyone. Yet he said we should not fear God’s rejection and I was touched by how he took pains not to tread heavily on this Scripture for the sake of the despairing. (There are likely many more presumptives than despairers.)
In his examples of those for whom this Scripture is likely to apply he mentioned those who rely simply on their Baptism and those who "sometimes" go to Mass. He implied that the seemingly Darwinian struggle of only the strong making it to Heaven in that passage applied to those who tried to get there without Christ. Since Jesus is the way the key is to follow Him. The gate is narrow but Jesus is the gate and if you follow him you don’t have to go trying to climb tall walls to get into Heaven. He also said it is not our business who God saves. It’s not ours to know. Rather, our concern should be to share the truth of Christ out of charity.
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