Anniversaries and Rejoicing, when the Wine runs OUT, and getting unhinged | 14th Sunday Ordinary - FOGOLF

Anniversaries and Rejoicing, when the Wine runs OUT, and getting unhinged | 14th Sunday Ordinary

From our last podcast, we talked about the Lord’s Prayer delivering us from evil. He’s sending them into evil, but he’s delivering them through it. Welcome back everyone. We are looking back at this past week’s Sunday readings and looking ahead to next Sunday’s readings. We know that most people attending mass don’t look ahead to the readings they’ll be hearing. So, I hope you’ll find our little show fun and useful, especially if you’re looking to connect more to the Bible readings during mass. My name is Vincent and my buddy’s name is Roy. We’ve been friends since childhood and we both volunteer at different churches as lectors or the guys who read at mass. We’ll offer our thoughts on the readings as well as share some fun stories about volunteering at church and everyday life. Okay, let’s get started. How’s your past week been? Crazy busy. Well, I guess first things first, I got married again. Again? Again? again. It was my 15th wedding renewal. Uh and it was my parents’ 50th wedding renewal. So, we kind of did a a joint venture. Um you were there. So, we got u gifted. Thank you for if you’re ever watched this, but we were gifted a spa trip where it has a hotel with the hot springs in the spa. It’s the Fairmont. And we were one of the few very few Asians if not the only Filipino at that resort hotel. And it was very it definitely had this affluent nature of it. You would have probably enjoyed it because with the stay at that Fairmont, we were able to enjoy the golf club that’s only for members only. Man, I suck at golf. But we were able to get into the club and we said, “Can we just hit hit some rounds on the on the range and he was like, “Yeah, me and were hitting some balls. It was really nice.” How about yourself? Yeah, for us, man, it’s the dog days of summer, but no big trips planned. You and your parents wedding anniversary mass was definitely a highlight so far this summer. So, that was fun. You know, it’s funny, too, because I was like, we will never probably be able to read together because we read for different churches. Yeah. But technically, we read together at our wedding. So, Laya did the first reading, I did the second reading, and you did Prayers of the Faithful. So, it’s like, yeah. Let’s look ahead um at the readings. The first reading is from the prophet Isaiah and he talks about a rejoicing Jerusalem. Your hearts will rejoice and your bodies flourish like the grass. Not like my grass which is super dry, but I’m sure like the grasses of Jerusalem at the time after the rain. Um the responsorial psalm is Psalm 66. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. So much joy in these readings this week. The second is from Paul’s letter to the Galatians. And here he talks about he boasts in nothing except the cross of Christ which if you put yourself back in first century Jewish person’s sandals that is nothing to boast about. So to write that and to say that I boast in nothing except the cross. Like are you crazy? like yeah he was crazy at the time because this was a revolutionary thought. So it’s not we kind of take it for granted. Oh we boast in the cross cross of Christ. If you’re a first century Jew I’m like what you’re boasting in a cross a crucifix or someone died and was executor on this implement of death instrument of death. Yeah. Implement of death. Like so listen for that in his letter to the Galatians. And the gospel is from Luke chapter 10. This is where Jesus commissions his disciples and he sends them out. And the line that stuck out for me here is, “I am sending you like lambs among wolves.” Okay, here’s some dangerous mission. Go out there and preach the gospel and spread the word. Like, wo, listen for that. And how he commissions them and what a a large undertaking this is for his disciples. Part of that too, again, from our last podcast, we talked about delivering us from evil. And it’s like I have he’s sending them into evil but he’s delivering them through it. I was wondering if because we have a segment of how would you read this? So I’m I’m going to call mine cardinal concepts the word unhinged. So this segment of our podcast is where I will attempt to highlight the themes, threads or thoughts that link, tie or hinge the readings of the Sunday masses. as I’ve been doing this before. Again, just making it kind of a a defined segment. Yeah. So, with that being said, why do I call it this way? Because in Latin, cardinal means hinge, right? Where it means of something of great importance or something that’s so fundamental. For example, like a door or a gate is only as good for its ability to open and close, which it swings from his hinges. So like saying everything hinges on this moment. Also we have the four cardinal virtues where all the virtues hang on. All the other virtues kind of derives from those things. That being said, um here are my cardinal concepts for this week’s readings. So for this coming mass, the theme is that all the earth shall rejoice in Jerusalem because of her care, her healing, protection, and the abundance to flourish. And you’ll see this throughout all the readings. So for example, in the first one, it describes how Jerusalem as a nurturing mom who wants us all to prosper with a lot of the analogies to nature or earth. Right? In the psalm, it says, “Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.” Right? In the second reading, it’s peace and mercy to those who follow the rule and to the Israel of God. In the gospel, he said to them, “The harvest again, earth is abundant, but the laborers are few.” And also the 72 returned rejoicing. So again, you see a lot of the rejoicing and the earth as the cardinal links between the readings this coming week. All right, let’s look back at this past week’s readings. Uh since I gave my thoughts last time of the morning, let’s talk about the one from the vigil. Again, going back to the theme of the Lord’s Prayer for the Vigil, it was, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” So, as I said before, it’s kind of a coincidence. The first reading was about Peter and John going to the temple, going to the beautiful gate. On the way, they healed that crippled man who everybody sees um at that gate. And now, he was able to go into the temple and pray. This sent a message to everybody in the temple because they see that man every day. Um in the responsorial psalm the refrain is their message goes out through all the earth. The second reading talks about Paul who summarized his life calling it a race and after Jesus gives him the gospel he radically changes from persecuting Christians to proclaiming the message to all the Gentiles. In the gospel where Jesus heals Peter from his three denials from the crucifixion, one of them is to tell him to feed his sheep. This means that one of Peter’s main jobs is to deliver the message about his kingdom. Basically, God’s message is manifested through Jesus, delivered and commissioned directly to his disciples, especially Peter and Paul since this is their mass, the two pillars of the church who delivers it to everyone. So, two things from mass this past weekend. Uh, one is from the homaly at your wedding vow renewal mass. And this is kind of off the topic of Peter and Paul when talking about Jesus’s miracle turning the water into wine at the wedding at Kaa. Father Henner talked about turning to Jesus when the wine runs out. So such as the wine of health, like when a spouse becomes seriously ill, the wine of money or wealth, like when a spouse loses his or her job, or the wine of romantic feelings. So all those kind of hit me. All married couples will run out of wine at some point in their marriage. But the message here was be like our mother Mary and turn to Jesus in those times. So that kind of hit me hard when father said when the wine runs out in the marriage from the Sunday mass homaly. I have to admit I wasn’t paying much attention. Sorry because I was in line for confession. Actually, both both my boy and I were in line for confession, and I was examining my conscience. I was paying attention to the line as it was moving because, as you know, the confession line is always long at Our Lady of Peace. Thanks be to God. Yes. Everyone listening, tell your local priest to promote and make confession more available, please. Uh my boy, uh allow me to brag just a little bit, please, here, but he hasn’t received communion in a few weeks now because he said he was overdue for confession. And I was two, by the way. So, I have I haven’t received communion in in a few weeks. So, thanks be to God. He’s 12 years old now. And he knows whom he’s receiving that he’s receiving Jesus in the Eucharist. And we talked about this last week. And he knows not to receive Jesus when not in the state of grace. So, to his credit, he was kind of reminding me like we got to go confession sometime. That’s why I didn’t pay too much attention to the homaly. Sorry. I’m sure it was great. Sure it was great. Okay. Coming up this week, are you reading this week? Actually, yes. And if we’re trying to help the other readers and and they may not necessarily have this book, if there is any uh context on the margins about that passage, I should read it off like I’ve done before. So, from the workbook for lectors, focus on the words only and new creation. Okay, I will underline that. All right, let’s give it a shot. So, from Galatians, brothers and sisters, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. For neither does circumcision mean anything, nor does uncircumcision, but only a new creation. Peace and mercy be to all who follow this rule and to the Israel of God. Amen. Amen. The word of the Lord. Cool. I will be prepared and you will be prepared too since we’re both reading this weekend. Oh, you’re reading too. Okay. When I read on my say my wedding, do you think I was a little overtly dramatic? I always say, you know, we shouldn’t be overtly dramatic on how we read, but I’m like this is my wedding. And I felt like I how I would read it to Laya if it was a story as I as I mentioned before. And so usually it’s you try to keep it a little tame sometimes. You don’t go know full actor mode or like you’re reading a story. But I said, you know, I’m going to no one else is here besides my family and I’m going to go kind of a little a little not overboard, but a little bit more extra, a little bit more a little bit more dramatic, as you like to say. Okay, how was it? I hope you got some positive takeaways from this. Leave your thoughts below in the comments. And don’t just like and subscribe, but also click that share button and share this with your family and friends as well. Take care and God bless. That’s why I kept this Star Wars theme. Stay on target. That’s so good. This is the shirt that I wore to the birth of my child. When Lorraine was like, if Lorraine, which she didn’t, she was like like I can’t do this. Like stay on target. Stay on target.

Roy and his family celebrate wedding anniversaries (0:50), he plays golf at a Members Only golf club (1:35).
St. Paul BOASTS about the Cross of Christ (3:08), the Lord’s prayer delivers us FROM evil and also THROUGH evil (4:18)
Roy gets unhinged about something (4:30), and finally, what to do when the WINE runs out (8:20). (HINT: Be like Mary!)