Homily for Mass for Babies Who Died Before Baptism
October 14, 2023
Saint Patrick Cathedral
Fort Worth, Texas
Isaiah 25:6a, 7-8b
Psalm 25:4-5ab, 6, 7b, 17,20
Matthew 11:25-30
“On this mountain He will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, the web that is woven over all nations. He will destroy death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from all faces; the reproach of His people He will remove from the whole earth; for the LORD has spoken.” The veil of death about which Isaiah speaks has many layers in which human beings have been shrouded and obscured since our first parents sinned in disobedience in the Garden of Eden. There is first the bitter experience of death whereby human beings are separated from each other and where there formerly was a father, or a mother, or a sister, or a friend, now remains only a gap with bittersweet memories and a tear in the fabric of one’s life.
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