Deep South Deacon

This post contains an approximation of the homily delivered at St Luke the Evangelist in Slidell on Sunday October 25, 2015. This is the 3oth Sunday in ordinary time, year B. The readings on which this homily is based can be found by clicking here. 

Blindness refers to an eye defect that limits or stops the ability to see.  People can be born blind or become blind from injury or illnesses such as cataracts.  But there are other uses of the word blind. For example, when a right handed quarterback gets crunched from the left side, the expression is “He got hit from the blind side.”

Someone willing to do anything to get ahead is said to have blind ambition.

The recent college shooting has started the debate yet again about second amendment rights versus gun control.  Something happened and again people want to do something. The clarion calls sound something like this :   Let's do something.  Let's fix this.  We have to stop the carnage.

The USA did not become a haven for mass killers overnight.