Homily for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinal Time, September 3, 2023
I urge you, brothers, and sisters, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice. Romans 12:1 Hmmm. This is unusual. Why not our souls? Why not our hearts? First, we should try to divest ourselves of our Western mentality of conceiving body and soul as being the lone two components of a human being and somewhat in opposition to and in tension with each other. And, secondly, we should think of body the way the Bible sees it, i.e., as being our whole self, considered from the point of view of our interaction with this earth, i.e., our body as us