22 Mar 2018
(School Mass)
If God were standing right in front of you…would you
recognize him? That’s a good question. You know, last week I asked how many of you
were Christians. And everybody raised
their hands. Well, being a “Christian” is
the same as saying, “I follow Christ. I
belong to Christ.” And we do that as part
of the Church—the community of believers all around the world, the “Catholic”
Church.
So, we’re followers of Christ, disciples of Christ, but…if he
were standing right of us, would we recognize him? You know, it’s hard to be a Christian if we can’t
recognize Christ. It would be like
saying, “I’m a basketball player, but I don’t really know the rules of the game.” It’s one thing to know how to dribble and how
put the ball through the hoop. That’s
good, but if I’m going to call myself a basketball “player,” then I also need
to know the rules of the game.
If we’re going to call ourselves “Christian,” then we have to
know Christ, because he’s the one we say we’re following.
So, if Jesus were standing right in front of us…would we
recognize him? What would we look
for? Well, somebody who’s truthful and honest. Somebody who is kind, somebody who loves life
and has an uplifting spirit. Somebody
who’s courageous and tells you the truth, even if it means you might not like
them because of it. There are lots of
ways to recognize Jesus. We could spend
all day talking about that (but you have to go to school, so we won’t).
If Jesus were standing right in front of us—right in front of
you and me—would we recognize him? What
would you be looking for? That’s a good
question. And it’s a question we’ll
spend our whole lives trying to answer: Jesus, who are you? Help me to see you and to hear you…more
clearly…every day.
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