Homily for the Twenty-fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
September 19, 2021
St. Patrick Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas
Wisdom 2:12, 17-20
Psalm 54: 3-4, 5, 6, 8
James 3:16-4:3
Mark 9:30-37
The reading from the Book of Wisdom today lets us hear the thoughts of the wicked. They devise ways to attack and persecute the just person for opposing them and bringing to light their wickedness; so, they torture and condemn the just to see if God will protect them. “Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; he sets himself against our doings, reproaches us for transgressions of the law and charges us with violations of our training. Let us see whether his words be true; let us find out what will happen to him.” The just one is a cause for their own insecurity and fear and they resent him as an adversary.
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