{"id":481,"date":"2007-09-11T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2007\/09\/the-toppling-tower-sundays-hom.html"},"modified":"2007-09-11T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T10:30:00","slug":"the-toppling-tower-sundays-hom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2007\/09\/the-toppling-tower-sundays-hom.html","title":{"rendered":"The Toppling Tower: Sunday&#8217;s Homily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing the prayer of the week based on Sunday\u2019s readings has forced me to pay attention to the homily at Mass, because now the priest\u2019s reflections can be material for my blog. I figure they may have picked up on themes that I missed.<br \/>\nOne of the priests at St. Mary\u2019s in Annapolis, Fr. Andrew Costello, is a wonderful writer. I&#8217;m always pleased when I see he has the Mass because I love his stories. After Mass this last past week, I asked him if he could e-mail me his homily (so that I could steal, er borrow, parts of it for my prayer), and he told me to go check out his blog.<br \/>\nSilly me. Of course he has a blog! Everyone spiritual human being has a blog  (or those of us who like to write, and like to be read).<br \/>\nSo, instead of stealing his beautiful words (I would have given him credit, of course), I used them to inspire me to write my own meditation on the Gospel.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/reflectbay.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/toppling-tower-hello.html\">I\u2019ve provided a link to his homily here<\/a>, though, because it was so good that at the end of it, the congregation all clapped. For a second, I felt like I was in the wrong place \u2026 the Baptist church down the block from me. His story is called <a href=\"http:\/\/reflectbay.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/toppling-tower-hello.html\">&#8220;The Toppling Tower,&#8221; and you can get to it by clicking here<\/a>. (He also provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/reflectbay.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/toppling-tower-hello.html\">beautiful photo of St. Mary\u2019s<\/a>, if you want to see where I pray on Sundays.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing the prayer of the week based on Sunday\u2019s readings has forced me to pay attention to the homily at Mass, because now the priest\u2019s reflections can be material for my blog. I figure they may have picked up on themes that I missed. One of the priests at St. Mary\u2019s in Annapolis, Fr. 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