Father Kevin A. Codd

Pan de Vida, 18o domingo ordinario (B), 4 de agosto de 2024

Los pobres hebreos en el desierto! Después de haber dejado atrás la esclavitud de egipcio, se encuentren sin pan y con hambre en el desierto de Sinaí.  Se murmuran contra Moisés y contra Dios. Sin embargo, Dios les provee su “pan de cada día” por amor a ellos. Jesús hace lo mismo a los judíos de su tiempo; les da pan de harina de trigo (el domingo pasado) pero mas importante, les da pan que no se acaba, Pan de Vida, que es su ser.

Homilía compartida en la Iglesia de San Roque, Cuenca, Ecuador.

The World's Hungers: 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B), July 28, 2024

Our world has many hungers: Hunger of the body. Hunger of the spirit. Hunger for riches and power. Which of these merits the primary attention of the Christian? A case can be made for each of them. Jesus addresses all three as one in today's magnificent gospel story of the multiplacation of the loaves and fishes. 

Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community of Cuenca, Ecuador

El hambre de la tierra: 17o domingo ordinario (B), 28 de julio de 2024

Hay mucha hambre en esta tierra. Hambre del cuerpo. Hambre del espiritu. Hambre tambien para el poder y las riquezas. ?Cual de esas es la mas importante para los Cristianos? Para Jesus, todos a la vez. El milagro de los panes y pescados es mucho mas que una maravilla, es un momento de formar de las multitudes un Pueblo de Dios compartiendo el Pan de la Vida. 

Homilia compartida en la Iglesia de San Roque, Cuenca, Ecuador. 

Ovejas sin pastores, 16o Domingo Ordinario (B), 21 de julio de 2024

"Jesus vio una numerosa multitud que lo estaba esperando y se compadeció de ellos, porque andaban como ovejas sin pastor..." En este momento tierno del Evangelio de San Marcos, la falta de pastores para las ovejas de Israel es algo notable. ¿Donde estan? Nos urge a todos nosotros examinar bien nuestras vidas como discipulos de Jesus; ¿estamos actuando como pastores a las ovejas que buscan la presencia de Dios en sus vidas diarias? 

Homilia compartida en la Iglesia de San Francisco, Cuenca, Ecuador. 

Sheep without Shepherds, 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B), July 21, 2024

As Jesus encounters the crowds looking to him for an experience of God in their lives, he is moved deeply and describes them as "sheep without shepherds." But where were those "shepherds" who were supposed to be caring for them? The priests of the temple, the students of the Law, and others who should have been with them were occupied elsewhere. The implicit critique of these non-shepherding shepherds, together with the powerful indictment in the prophet Jeremiah (first reading of the day), calls all of us who are pastors in one way or another to examine our consciences as to how absent we might be from the sheep the Lord has given to us. 

Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community of Cuenca, Ecuador. 

From Disciple to Apostle, 15th Sunday of the Year (B), July 14, 2024

Life has its unexpected changes. Such was true for many of the great figures in the Scriptures, including Jesus' Twelve. In Mark 6, they experience the unexpected and challenging change from their status as "disciples" to "apostles."

Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community of Cuenca, Ecuador.

Desde discipulo a apostel, 15o Domingo Ordinario (B), 14 de julio de 2024

En la vida, siempre hay cambios  Asi era para los grandes figuras de las Escrituras y en particular para los Doce. En el sexto capitulo de San Marcos, la vida de los Doce se cambia en una manera grande e inesperaba: se cambian de discipulos a apostoles. 

Homilia compartida a los feligreses de la Iglesia de San Francisco de Asis en Cuenca, Ecuador.

 

Family Stress, 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B), July 7, 2024

Jesus' return to his hometown of Nazareth is marked by the unappreciative (and unbelieving) response of his family and neighbors. Perhaps tangled expectations, part of every family's life, are the reason. 

Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, Ecuador. 

Mark's Gospel Sandwich: 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time (B), June 30, 2024

The evangelist, Mark, chooses a very rare literary form in his fifth chapter; he "sandwiches" one beautiful story between two halves of another. Let's explore what he might be up to even as we learn so much from both Jesus' encounter with Jairus, the synagogue official and the woman suffering for twelve years with a debilitating flow of blood. 

Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, Ecuador.

"Teacher, do you not care...?" Twelfth Sunday of the Year (B), June 23, 2024

Mark's version of the storm at sea contains one line that should stop us cold: "Teacher, do you not care that we are about to perish?" It is a terrible thing to say to Jesus who is "care" incarnate. What Jesus' apostles miss in the midst of their storm is the reality that Jesus is in the boat with them. We, too, often forget this same truth in the midst of our life's storms. 

Homily shared with the Saint Francis Catholic Community in Cuenca, Ecuador.