Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple - As the Tabernacle and the Temple were carefully prepared and as Mary was also prepared to become the Theotokos, so also we should prepare our children for the great calling of being temples of the God through the Holy Spirit…. I do not usually speak of current social issues in homilies, but this week I want to make an exception. There is today a terrible blight that is obliterating the childhood of many young children and teens right in our midst. This is the blight of gaming and social media we and our children access from devices we have in our homes, carry on our persons, and wonder now if we can hardly live without. Gaming and social media are consuming the childhood of our children, robbing them of experiences that are essential to their inner formation. It is destroying their souls, sucking away their curiosity, their ability to think, their desire to learn…. As Christians we are called to pay attention to our lives. To learn to seek God and His will and to ask God to help us to change when we need to. This Feast Day and the season of Advent can summon us to action in this area of our lives and the lives of our children..”- Fr. Marc Dunaway, November 21 and December 8, 2024.-