A Homily based on Isaiah 53: 10-11

It seems that conflict has become the norm these days. Well, many centuries ago, the prophet Isaiah faced much conflict as well. The details in his time were different, of course, but the conflict was just as threatening. And he struggled with “What am I to do?” The conviction he came away with was that he was to hold on to truth, press on, and “he shall see the light in fullness of days” (Is 53:11a).

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It is very obvious that Our Lord speaks to the two big issues in our state and country today.

One of our moral theology professors in seminary, Fr. Jerome Young, a Benedictine monk, once quite startlingly and honestly told us that in our world today, the 10 Commandments have been basically reduced, boiled down to two commandments. It is a sobering reality:

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The Family Is Our Connection To God

The start of the first book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis, always reminds us that it was God who created man. Then God made woman as a partner for man.

When Adam sees the woman he says, “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called ‘woman.’” Logically, God desires that man and woman should become one. They are made complementary, made suitable to each other. In this union of God’s love, the Sacrament of Marriage, that man and woman work together to bring their family to Heaven.

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