"We are not allowed to write anyone off" Homily for Christ the King 2022

"We are not allowed to write anyone off" - Homily for Christ the King 2022

 

Christ the King desires to save everyone through the Church that He founded, the Catholic Church, and that salvation is accomplished most specifically through the Sacraments of the Church.

 

But we, as Catholics, are not allowed to write anyone off…like the Good Thief hanging on the Cross next to Jesus Christ, Christ desires to say to EVERYONE “This day you will be with me in paradise”

 

As a priest new to the Terre Haute area about 10 years ago, I was called to Union hospital and there was a man who was dying.  He had never been baptized but I was called because this man had told the nurses that he wanted to become Catholic.  I baptized him on his hospital bed, gave him the Sacrament of Confirmation and then his first Holy Communion and then gave him anointing of the sick.  That gentleman died the next day.

 

Again, no matter how far people might seem to our human eyes to be away from God…we are not allowed to write anyone off from being able to be saved.

 

Jesus’ Kingdom is already breaking out in the world through all the gifts that come from the Catholic Church…let us continue to proclaim the good news that everyone is invited into Christ’s Kingdom, and let us remember that we are never allowed to give up on anyone, no matter how far away from God they might seem to our human eyes.