Epistle Homily for 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Epistle-based homily for this Sunday is entitled Why Worry When You Can Pray? .

The story is told of one of Napoleon’s generals, Massena, who with his army of 18,000 soldiers besieged an Austrian town that had no defences whatsoever. The town council met to discuss how to surrender. Just then an elderly man, the dean of the town church, reminded the council that it was Easter and suggested that they hold the usual Easter services and put the problem in God’s hands. The council took his advice, went to the church and rang the church bell to assemble the townsfolk for worship. Napoleon’s forces heard the joyful ringing of the bells and concluded that the Austrian forces had arrived to rescue the town. Immediately, they broke camp and beat a retreat, and the town was saved. ... Read more .

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