June 7, 2020

Post date: Jun 09, 2020 3:12:4 AM

June 7, 2020 Homily on HOLY TRINITY by Fr. Karl Schray

We believe that God is love. But love always needs a beloved.

God reveals himself as a community of love: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

One day a farmer went into the city. As he was walking down a busy street

he suddenly stopped and said to a friend who was with him.

‘I can hear a cricket.’ His friend was amazed and asked,

‘How can you hear a cricket in the midst of all this noise?’

‘Because my ears are attuned to his sound’ the farmer replied.

Then he listened more intently and following the sound, found the cricket

perched on a window ledge. His friend couldn’t get over this.

But the farmer showed no surprise. Instead he took a few coins

out of his pocket and threw them on the pavement.

On hearing the jingle of coins, the passersby stopped in their tracks.

You see what I mean, said the farmer. None of those could hear the cricket

but all of them could hear the sound of the money. People hear

what their ears are attuned to hear and are deaf to all the rest.

Let us all make the time to be tuned into God.

These last 2 weeks America has been in pain.

People who are listening to each other, are hearing each other and

are walking and demonstrating peacefully together. Violence and thievery,

hatred, and racism, have no rightful place in our country.

Let us all listen and walk together to heal.

St. Paul just told us,

“Help one another. Be united; live in peace,

and the God of love and peace will be with you.”