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9/30/26 Burying Foxes · Omnia Christus

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  SPEAKER_00: So I have both Irish and German background.
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  SPEAKER_00: And someone once said that if you're Irish and German, everything has to be perfect tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a certain connection,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think,
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  SPEAKER_00: between that and this gospel, which is that we want everything to be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want everything to be exactly the way that it should be.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we don't really want to do it right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll do it later on.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's that tomorrow everything will be perfect.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that is what this gospel is trying to get to, that Christ is here.
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  SPEAKER_00: It might seem to us to be harsh, perhaps, when Jesus says, He says, let me go bury my father.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, well, for heaven's sakes, you know, he says, let the dead bury their dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that seems to be a pretty unfeeling and harsh response.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you have to understand the cultural context of what he's saying,
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  SPEAKER_00: because to bury my father was an idiomatic expression,
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  SPEAKER_00: which meant to put everything in order,
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  SPEAKER_00: to put all the house in order,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, to get the inheritance set up, to dispose of the property.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was to do all of those sorts of things, which you'd say, okay, well, now...
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  SPEAKER_00: I can do something, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So it isn't as if his father has just died and he's lying there and there's nobody to bury him.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's not what's being talked about here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why the Lord is saying, he says all of that is dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: All that preoccupation with things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are dead things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't let your heart be caught up with what is dead,
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  SPEAKER_00: with all of those worldly concerns and cares.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those don't lead anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rather come and follow me today, now, right now, not tomorrow, not the next day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's so easy for us to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tomorrow, I'm going to do those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And tomorrow never comes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because every tomorrow, there's another tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we keep putting things off.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Christ says, today comes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am with you, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is the day of salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's this famous today in the liturgy when we have our celebration of Easter,
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  SPEAKER_00: of Christmas,
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  SPEAKER_00: those words we had in literature say, Christ who rose from the dead, today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, there's this presence of being with Christ in the liturgy now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when he came to people, that's the way he was.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said he called the apostles and they came.
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  SPEAKER_00: They dropped everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: They left everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: They followed him.
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  SPEAKER_00: They weren't perfect people.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had definitely problems and all those things came up in his ministry.
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  SPEAKER_00: But nevertheless, they dropped everything and they followed him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what Christ is asking him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says today, today, follow me today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't Don't put things off until tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't wait until tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about all these worldly cares and concerns, all these things I have to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: What about this?
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  SPEAKER_00: And what about that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Leave those things in my hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come and follow me now.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, put your life into the kingdom of God now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go and proclaim the kingdom of God, as he says.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the way our life should be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our life should be a proclamation of the kingdom of God,
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  SPEAKER_00: rather than the example of someone who's caught up and concerned
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  SPEAKER_00: about all these worldly affairs and so forth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those things will be with us always.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're never going to get that done.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like my grandfather never finished working in his yard.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think he could, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It was his ongoing project that he always had,
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  SPEAKER_00: and he always had all these things going on,
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  SPEAKER_00: and It kind of would have been a disaster for him if he'd finished.
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  SPEAKER_00: It had to be something that was always going on,
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  SPEAKER_00: but he always told himself, well, I'm going to finish it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he never did.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the way we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to have these ongoing things, but there's no end to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no end to our cares and concerns.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, as soon as I get my life in order,
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  SPEAKER_00: as soon as I have those things taken care of, as soon as money's not a problem...
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  SPEAKER_00: Then I will follow you, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, no,
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  SPEAKER_00: those things are always going to be there and they're always going
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  SPEAKER_00: to be creating new problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I have to say, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to follow you, Lord, today as I am, where I'm at, regardless of anything else.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all those other things will take care of themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what the Lord says is seek first the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And all these other things will be given you besides.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I'm seeking first the kingdom of God, these other things will fall into place.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will see the way that I can resolve those things.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if I go and I'm going to resolve those things first before I follow God,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm never going to follow God.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's Christ's message.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a harsh message, but it's a very direct one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's something that we need to hear because we need to be shaken out
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  SPEAKER_00: of our complacency of just, you know, mumbling along, bumbling along.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never doing what we know that we should do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can waste your life that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a life is never wasted if you're alive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because today, you have a chance to change.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, you have a chance to turn to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, Christ is offering you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, come and follow me today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, he's putting that into our hands.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are we going to do with this gift that he's giving us?