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And so the readings are never really situated exactly for the holiday. It's kind of potluck. However, the prayers are. And we get, actually, two readings that give us a very interesting moment that I think very much mimics the moment our country is in. We have an Old Testament reading of why we need to be afraid, and a New Testament reading of why we need to have hope. Whether we're going to be a people of fear or a people of hope, and which of those emotions is going to continue to manipulate us. You know, as a country, are we a people of fear? Are we a people of hope? Every issue that arises in the world, are we going to say, Get the world further away from us because we're afraid? Or are we a people of hope? And I think it's interesting when you look, having been trained in liturgy, we were always taught, St. Alphonse and some of the great liturgists of history used to say, you know, they didn't put it this way, the people commenting would have added this next phrase. You know, it's a modern American thing that the homily is supposed to break open the scripture. We love that. It's actually supposed to break open the liturgy. You can actually do a homily on the Eucharistic prayer. You can do a homily on the closing prayer. You can do, you know, it doesn't have to be. It's the whole liturgy. And I think today when we look at these two readings that say you have a choice between being a people of hope or being a people of fear, it's interesting to hear the more specific take of our church on this day. Because this opening reading, this opening prayer, is, I think we should put it, you know, everywhere in public we can find right now. You know, Father of all nations, as we recall the day when our country claimed its place among a family of nations. I'm not sure what a great family member we're being these days. You know, a family of nations. For what has been achieved, we give you thanks for the work that still remains. We ask your help. And as you have called us to be a nation, may our country share your blessings with all the people of the earth. That what it means to be a great nation is in how we reach out, not, you know, you'll notice there's nothing in here that says, after we're done, you know, making sure we're safe and protecting ourselves and making sure none of those people can hurt us and making sure they aren't bad people and making sure they're up to our standards. Help us to share your blessings. That's Old Testament fear. That's that sort of, oh, everything will go horribly wrong if we become generous. There, you know, I think what the opening prayer tells us is that our choice is whether or not we're going to become a Christian nation or something else. I think what's fascinating, and I've said this before, but when I hear people talking about what will our response be to refugees, what will our response be to world hunger, what will our response be to all of these people in need around the world, most people would say, well, you know, you have to make sure that you're protected first. So what we're saying as a Christian nation is as soon as you can make sure that there will be no cross involved, we will be Christian. Crossless Christianity, that's what we want. We want a Christianity that guarantees we can be helpful without actually putting ourselves out there. You know, I, this weekend, the opening reading kind of always reminds me of that, that reading of Elisha the prophet, and he goes, and they've done this great, wonderful thing, and they've given him a room to stay in, and it says, you know, he gives her a blessing, and a year later she has a baby. Wouldn't it be nice if charity worked that way? If you needed something, and I could go, there, you have it, and get on with my life, and it hasn't hurt me at all, and no expense to Elisha whatsoever, you know, might have pulled a muscle. Other than that, he's fine. But you and I know that charity takes something from us. It takes time, it takes effort, it takes our assets, and if we are going to help someone, we have to be open to being compromised by it. No other way it happens. You know, no one says Jesus came to bless us from the cross. He sacrificed himself for us. Helping others will be sacrificial, and we will never get our heads around that without being a people of hope, a people who, as the prayer, when we opened up, said, we're first very aware, not of what we have, but of what we've been given, what has been our blessing. We always think we're going to hang on to ours like it's something that through divine right belongs to me, rather than everything I have, I've been given, you know, most of us have, even our, we don't like to admit this, because we like to think of ourselves as much freer, but most of you, and I've said this at most funerals, most of you know that even your personality you didn't really come up with on your own, and you know that the first time you do something, look in the mirror and think, ooh, I just became my mother. Ooh, I just became my father. Gee, what a coincidence that I know the person I became like. No, no coincidence. They built that personality in many ways, as did every person we've met. Accident of birth, that you're here and someone else is in a war-torn country. What we've been given is what we celebrate today, and if we ever understand the grace of what we've been given, we really have to be willing to embrace even greater ugliness to say, and I'm not sharing with anyone. It becomes a dark place we don't want to look at, and yet I think it's a place that people are working furiously to normalize right now. You know, I sometimes feel like our leaders think if we just keep throwing more bizarre garbage at them, the stuff we threw last week might start to seem normal, and we need to hold on and say, no, no, not normal. Not normal. Brian Massengale this last week, quoting Martin Luther King, said, you know, our country's problems is not any one party or any one politic or any one candidate or anyone. Our problem is we have a soul sickness. We have a soul sickness. If I can go through my life happy that I've got what I have and not caring about people who are suffering around the world, that is a soul sickness, and it's a soul sickness we're not anxious to cure because if I open myself up to how much others are suffering, it will demand a scary amount of my life. It's frightening to really open ourselves up to the awareness of what other people go through, and yet without it, we become, we're going to become the little town, we're going to become this little isolated place, and oh, then we made a mistake, and now God's going to destroy us, and we become a people of great fear, you know, a people of great fear instead of a people of great generosity, a people of great hope. I've joked a lot, and not to attack any one person, but I've joked a lot about the phrase, you know, the most meaningless phrase of the last year was make America great again because there's no such thing. You can't say great unless you say great at what, you know, and someone says, oh, you're great. I don't know. Do they mean I'm a great ax murderer? You're great. Great demands that you explain great at what. I think we all think America should be great. I think today's gospel asks us, great at what? Great at protecting yourself, you know, you could argue for some people that is the making of a nation. 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WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.199 The Lord be with you. 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:16.200 A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew. 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:20.399 As Jesus got into a boat, his disciples followed him, and suddenly a violent storm came up 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:25.000 on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:26.620 But he was asleep. 00:00:26.620 --> 00:00:31.180 They came and woke him, saying, Lord, save us, we are perishing. 00:00:31.180 --> 00:00:35.779 He said to them, Why are you terrified, O you of little faith? 00:00:35.779 --> 00:00:43.259 When he got up, then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm. 00:00:43.259 --> 00:00:48.459 The men were amazed and said, What sort of man is this, whom even the winds and the sea 00:00:48.459 --> 00:00:50.979 obey? 00:00:50.979 --> 00:00:57.860 The Gospel of the Lord. 00:00:57.860 --> 00:01:04.260 We're given, for our Fourth of July, the way the Fourth of July liturgy works is the Church 00:01:04.260 --> 00:01:11.379 has written special prayers for the day, but the readings this week, this year, we get, 00:01:11.379 --> 00:01:13.379 you know, Tuesday of this week of ordinary time. 00:01:13.379 --> 00:01:15.419 I mean, the readings kind of just stay. 00:01:15.419 --> 00:01:20.900 And so the readings are never really situated exactly for the holiday. 00:01:20.900 --> 00:01:22.739 It's kind of potluck. 00:01:22.739 --> 00:01:26.540 However, the prayers are. 00:01:26.540 --> 00:01:32.540 And we get, actually, two readings that give us a very interesting moment that I think 00:01:32.540 --> 00:01:36.660 very much mimics the moment our country is in. 00:01:36.660 --> 00:01:44.720 We have an Old Testament reading of why we need to be afraid, and a New Testament reading 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:47.620 of why we need to have hope. 00:01:47.620 --> 00:01:51.779 Whether we're going to be a people of fear or a people of hope, and which of those emotions 00:01:51.779 --> 00:01:54.260 is going to continue to manipulate us. 00:01:54.260 --> 00:01:58.180 You know, as a country, are we a people of fear? 00:01:58.180 --> 00:02:00.260 Are we a people of hope? 00:02:00.260 --> 00:02:05.220 Every issue that arises in the world, are we going to say, Get the world further away 00:02:05.220 --> 00:02:07.660 from us because we're afraid? 00:02:07.660 --> 00:02:10.179 Or are we a people of hope? 00:02:10.179 --> 00:02:17.020 And I think it's interesting when you look, having been trained in liturgy, we were always 00:02:17.020 --> 00:02:25.699 taught, St. Alphonse and some of the great liturgists of history used to say, you know, 00:02:25.699 --> 00:02:29.979 they didn't put it this way, the people commenting would have added this next phrase. 00:02:29.979 --> 00:02:35.940 You know, it's a modern American thing that the homily is supposed to break open the scripture. 00:02:35.940 --> 00:02:36.940 We love that. 00:02:36.940 --> 00:02:39.259 It's actually supposed to break open the liturgy. 00:02:39.259 --> 00:02:41.820 You can actually do a homily on the Eucharistic prayer. 00:02:41.820 --> 00:02:44.139 You can do a homily on the closing prayer. 00:02:44.139 --> 00:02:46.339 You can do, you know, it doesn't have to be. 00:02:46.380 --> 00:02:47.660 It's the whole liturgy. 00:02:47.660 --> 00:02:52.740 And I think today when we look at these two readings that say you have a choice between 00:02:52.740 --> 00:02:58.380 being a people of hope or being a people of fear, it's interesting to hear the more specific 00:02:58.380 --> 00:03:01.860 take of our church on this day. 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:08.339 Because this opening reading, this opening prayer, is, I think we should put it, you 00:03:08.339 --> 00:03:11.460 know, everywhere in public we can find right now. 00:03:11.460 --> 00:03:16.460 You know, Father of all nations, as we recall the day when our country claimed its place 00:03:16.460 --> 00:03:20.259 among a family of nations. 00:03:20.259 --> 00:03:24.220 I'm not sure what a great family member we're being these days. 00:03:24.220 --> 00:03:28.139 You know, a family of nations. 00:03:28.139 --> 00:03:31.639 For what has been achieved, we give you thanks for the work that still remains. 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:33.580 We ask your help. 00:03:33.580 --> 00:03:41.339 And as you have called us to be a nation, may our country share your blessings with 00:03:41.339 --> 00:03:43.660 all the people of the earth. 00:03:43.660 --> 00:03:50.979 That what it means to be a great nation is in how we reach out, not, you know, you'll 00:03:50.979 --> 00:03:55.259 notice there's nothing in here that says, after we're done, you know, making sure we're 00:03:55.259 --> 00:03:59.020 safe and protecting ourselves and making sure none of those people can hurt us and making 00:03:59.020 --> 00:04:02.139 sure they aren't bad people and making sure they're up to our standards. 00:04:02.139 --> 00:04:05.580 Help us to share your blessings. 00:04:05.580 --> 00:04:09.020 That's Old Testament fear. 00:04:09.020 --> 00:04:15.779 That's that sort of, oh, everything will go horribly wrong if we become generous. 00:04:15.779 --> 00:04:23.420 There, you know, I think what the opening prayer tells us is that our choice is whether 00:04:23.420 --> 00:04:32.140 or not we're going to become a Christian nation or something else. 00:04:32.140 --> 00:04:38.339 I think what's fascinating, and I've said this before, but when I hear people talking 00:04:38.339 --> 00:04:44.380 about what will our response be to refugees, what will our response be to world hunger, 00:04:44.380 --> 00:04:50.500 what will our response be to all of these people in need around the world, most people 00:04:50.579 --> 00:04:54.700 would say, well, you know, you have to make sure that you're protected first. 00:04:54.700 --> 00:04:59.660 So what we're saying as a Christian nation is as soon as you can make sure that there 00:04:59.660 --> 00:05:04.100 will be no cross involved, we will be Christian. 00:05:04.100 --> 00:05:08.820 Crossless Christianity, that's what we want. 00:05:08.820 --> 00:05:17.220 We want a Christianity that guarantees we can be helpful without actually putting ourselves 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:19.739 out there. 00:05:19.779 --> 00:05:25.019 You know, I, this weekend, the opening reading kind of always reminds me of that, that reading 00:05:25.019 --> 00:05:29.940 of Elisha the prophet, and he goes, and they've done this great, wonderful thing, and they've 00:05:29.940 --> 00:05:34.779 given him a room to stay in, and it says, you know, he gives her a blessing, and a year 00:05:34.779 --> 00:05:35.779 later she has a baby. 00:05:35.779 --> 00:05:38.899 Wouldn't it be nice if charity worked that way? 00:05:38.899 --> 00:05:42.540 If you needed something, and I could go, there, you have it, and get on with my life, and 00:05:42.540 --> 00:05:49.059 it hasn't hurt me at all, and no expense to Elisha whatsoever, you know, might have pulled 00:05:49.059 --> 00:05:50.260 a muscle. 00:05:50.260 --> 00:05:52.299 Other than that, he's fine. 00:05:52.299 --> 00:05:58.299 But you and I know that charity takes something from us. 00:05:58.299 --> 00:06:04.839 It takes time, it takes effort, it takes our assets, and if we are going to help someone, 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:08.619 we have to be open to being compromised by it. 00:06:08.619 --> 00:06:10.220 No other way it happens. 00:06:10.220 --> 00:06:13.660 You know, no one says Jesus came to bless us from the cross. 00:06:13.660 --> 00:06:17.859 He sacrificed himself for us. 00:06:17.859 --> 00:06:25.140 Helping others will be sacrificial, and we will never get our heads around that without 00:06:25.140 --> 00:06:30.980 being a people of hope, a people who, as the prayer, when we opened up, said, we're first 00:06:30.980 --> 00:06:42.859 very aware, not of what we have, but of what we've been given, what has been our blessing. 00:06:42.859 --> 00:06:47.239 We always think we're going to hang on to ours like it's something that through divine 00:06:47.359 --> 00:06:54.239 right belongs to me, rather than everything I have, I've been given, you know, most of 00:06:54.239 --> 00:06:59.040 us have, even our, we don't like to admit this, because we like to think of ourselves 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:05.720 as much freer, but most of you, and I've said this at most funerals, most of you know that 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:09.480 even your personality you didn't really come up with on your own, and you know that the 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:12.959 first time you do something, look in the mirror and think, ooh, I just became my mother. 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:15.559 Ooh, I just became my father. 00:07:16.559 --> 00:07:20.600 Gee, what a coincidence that I know the person I became like. 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.200 No, no coincidence. 00:07:23.200 --> 00:07:30.160 They built that personality in many ways, as did every person we've met. 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:37.959 Accident of birth, that you're here and someone else is in a war-torn country. 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:44.399 What we've been given is what we celebrate today, and if we ever understand the grace 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:51.239 of what we've been given, we really have to be willing to embrace even greater ugliness 00:07:51.239 --> 00:07:56.320 to say, and I'm not sharing with anyone. 00:07:56.320 --> 00:08:02.399 It becomes a dark place we don't want to look at, and yet I think it's a place that people 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:05.600 are working furiously to normalize right now. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:11.160 You know, I sometimes feel like our leaders think if we just keep throwing more bizarre 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:16.480 garbage at them, the stuff we threw last week might start to seem normal, and we need 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:19.279 to hold on and say, no, no, not normal. 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:20.959 Not normal. 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:28.720 Brian Massengale this last week, quoting Martin Luther King, said, you know, our country's 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.760 problems is not any one party or any one politic or any one candidate or anyone. 00:08:33.760 --> 00:08:37.479 Our problem is we have a soul sickness. 00:08:37.479 --> 00:08:40.200 We have a soul sickness. 00:08:40.239 --> 00:08:45.799 If I can go through my life happy that I've got what I have and not caring about people 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:51.520 who are suffering around the world, that is a soul sickness, and it's a soul sickness 00:08:51.520 --> 00:08:59.679 we're not anxious to cure because if I open myself up to how much others are suffering, 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:05.559 it will demand a scary amount of my life. 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:10.799 It's frightening to really open ourselves up to the awareness of what other people go 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:16.119 through, and yet without it, we become, we're going to become the little town, we're going 00:09:16.119 --> 00:09:20.320 to become this little isolated place, and oh, then we made a mistake, and now God's 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:26.119 going to destroy us, and we become a people of great fear, you know, a people of great 00:09:26.119 --> 00:09:32.359 fear instead of a people of great generosity, a people of great hope. 00:09:32.359 --> 00:09:38.039 I've joked a lot, and not to attack any one person, but I've joked a lot about the phrase, 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:44.000 you know, the most meaningless phrase of the last year was make America great again because 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:45.840 there's no such thing. 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:51.880 You can't say great unless you say great at what, you know, and someone says, oh, you're 00:09:51.880 --> 00:09:52.880 great. 00:09:52.880 --> 00:09:53.880 I don't know. 00:09:53.880 --> 00:09:58.919 Do they mean I'm a great ax murderer? 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:00.559 You're great. 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:04.960 Great demands that you explain great at what. 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:07.799 I think we all think America should be great. 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:13.320 I think today's gospel asks us, great at what? 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:19.359 Great at protecting yourself, you know, you could argue for some people that is the making 00:10:19.359 --> 00:10:21.520 of a nation. 00:10:21.520 --> 00:10:26.840 Great at responding to the needs of the world, that is the making of a Christian nation.
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Father Pat’s message is a powerful call to examine the soul of our nation through the lens of faith, particularly as we celebrate the Fourth of July. He contrasts the fear that often drives national decisions with the hope that the Gospel calls us to live by. Using the day’s liturgical readings and prayers, he reminds us that our greatness as a country is not measured by isolation or self-protection, but by our willingness to share our blessings and embrace the cross of sacrificial love. True Christian charity, he insists, costs us something, and only a people founded on hope—not fear—can rise to the challenge of global compassion and justice. Father Pat begins by reflecting on the Gospel reading, where Jesus calms the storm while His disciples panic. The juxtaposition of Jesus’ peace and the disciples’ fear becomes a metaphor for the current spiritual and socio-political climate of the United States. The disciples' fear in the storm mirrors the fear that often underlies national attitudes—fear of others, fear of suffering, fear of vulnerability. But Jesus' rebuke—“O you of little faith”—is not merely about their lack of trust in His power, but about their inability to believe that peace and divine presence are possible even amid chaos. Father Pat connects this to the American tendency to respond to global crises—refugees, hunger, violence—not with compassion, but with self-protection and isolationism. He then draws attention to the structure of the liturgy itself, emphasizing that a homily is not confined to breaking open the Scriptures but is meant to illuminate the entire liturgical context, including the prayers. The opening prayer of the Fourth of July liturgy, which thanks God for the blessings given to the nation and asks for help in sharing those blessings with all people, becomes the theological centerpiece of the message. This prayer, he argues, articulates a vision of America not as a fortress, but as a generous member of a global family. He critiques how far the nation has drifted from this vision, questioning whether America is truly acting like a "family member" among nations, and whether it reflects the values of the Gospel in its policies and attitudes. Father Pat challenges the popular notion of “Crossless Christianity”—the desire to do good without sacrifice. He illustrates this with the story of Elisha in the Old Testament, who blesses a woman without it costing him anything. But he insists that real charity and justice are not painless. They require us to risk, to give, to be inconvenienced. He states boldly that if we are unwilling to suffer for others, then we have abandoned the very essence of Christian discipleship. Helping others, he declares, will involve the cross, and without embracing the cross, we cannot claim to be living the Gospel. He further critiques the idea that our blessings are earned or deserved. Instead, he reminds us that most of what we have—our talents, our opportunities, even our personalities—are gifts shaped by others and by circumstances beyond our control. Recognizing that everything is a gift leads to humility and generosity. Conversely, believing we are entitled to everything we have fosters a dark selfishness—a “soul sickness,” as he calls it, quoting theologian Brian Massengale and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This soul sickness is the moral blindness that allows people to ignore the suffering of others without remorse. In closing, Father Pat deconstructs the phrase “Make America Great Again,” pointing out that greatness is meaningless unless we define what we mean by it. Are we striving to be great at hoarding wealth and power? Or great at offering compassion, justice, and hope to the world? He suggests that the Gospel calls us to the latter—to be a people of generosity and hope, not fear and self-preservation. Our national greatness, he argues, should be measured not by military might or economic dominance, but by our willingness to bear the cross for others, to share our blessings, and to live out the radical love of Christ on the world stage.
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