Family Blessing Mass and 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Family Blessing Mass Homily

and the

Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time 

Below is the beginning of the homily given by Father Michael Bovino at our annual Family Blessing Mass. To hear Father’s entire homily, you can watch the video on our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/thesistersofcharity or by clicking HERE.

Thank you very much. God bless you!

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 “Thank you.” Two very simple words that we hear used so often, an yet we recognize that these two words convey something deep and profoundly Christian. The expression of thanksgiving is mainly what brings you all here today. Not only in the Eucharist, which of course means thanksgiving, which is the perfect expression of Thanksgiving. The most perfect that we could ever hope to offer, but also to express thanks and gratitude to you on behalf of the Sisters here. Those of you who have come here for Mass, both physically and virtually, are here because you are benefactors of the Sisters. To be a benefactor of course literally means, “to make good.” That is to say to make good things happen. A benefactor is one who helps bring about something good; who provides for the needs of others. So, each of you were invited here today so that the Sisters might say, “thank you,” and express the depths of their gratitude for you. For your prayers, for the various ways in which you support them, your material, financial support, and the many other ways in which you “make good” here through the Sisters, and so it’s not only right and just that the Sisters call you here today to say “thank you,” but also to do so within the context of the Mass, the Eucharist.

~ Father Michael Bovino