Homily for the Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time
February 6, 2021
St. Patrick Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas
Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8
Psalm 138:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 7-8
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Luke 5:1-11
Pope Saint John Paul II observed prophetically in 1993 that in our culture, “A distorted sense of freedom…is lived out as a blind acquiescence to instinctive forces and to an individual’s will to power. Therefore, on the level of thought and behavior, it is almost natural to find an erosion of internal consent to ethical principles. On the religious level, such a situation, if it does not always lead to an explicit refusal of God, causes widespread indifference and results in a life which, even in its more significant moments and more decisive choices, is lived as if God did not exist.
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