Homily for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinal Time, August 29, 2021
Today’s readings call us to a painful overhaul of our heart. It is always painful to probe the recesses of the heart because whatever we find in it might flatten our presumptions and shatter a status quo which might be a state of lukewarmness. As those among you, who have been attending San Francesco Church since 2001 (the year I came among you) know, from time to time, I keep warning myself, first, and the congregation about the lurking danger of self-delusion. Since it would be self-delusion in matters of eternal life and eternal death, it is something