Homily for Solemnity of Christ the King, 2013

An interesting site that visually shows the population according to race. Each dot is one person: http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/index.html

"We [Americans] interpret everything through a lens of pragmatism, through a transactional understanding of the world. Many of us come to church Sunday after Sunday with an expectation of receiving something . . . But God does not exist to be useful. God exists to be adored, simply because of who he is. True worship is never transactional. True worship expects nothing in return. True worship is, at its core, an act of senseless, wasteful, indulgent beauty."
                         Skye Jenthani, Newsong Church, Irvine, CA

Bad news: According to http://cities.barna.org/the-most-post-christian-cities-in-america/, Rochester ranks as #21 in the list of most post-Christian cities in the U.S. Other bad news: Albany is #1 and Bishop Matano's Burlington, VT is #2.

After a year of waiting, Pope Francis has chosen Bishop Matano, currently Bishop of Burlington, Vermont, as the new bishop of Rochester. (1THES 5:8) "[Since] we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation."