Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Homily)

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Homily)

June 28, 2015 11:00 am  · Sergio Muñoz Fita

Homilies, Ordinary Time

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My brothers and sisters, this week two terrible things have happened, here in this country and out of this country. In Washington D.C. two days ago, the Supreme Court found by a 5-4 vote that gender is irrelevant to the legal meaning of marriage in the United States. In other words it is a way to recognize same-sex unions. From now on throughout the whole country, two people of the same sex will be able to get married.

The same day, June 26, over 90 people were killed in different parts of the world by Islamic fundamentalists. One person was beheaded in France. In France, not in the middle East, not in a weird unknown country whose location we don't know. In France, the core of the old Europe. Three hours away from my home town. 37 people were killed in Tunisia. In Somalia at least 30 people were killed by the fundamentalist group Al-Shabob. ISIS took the lives of 25 people in Kuwait. This is not happening on a different planet, in a very distant galaxy. This is our world, our times. This is the world we are living in today.