Summary: Homily from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "Jesus wants us to be free. Because why? Jesus is merciless when it comes to sin. He's merciful when it comes to you and me, completely full of mercy when it comes to you and me. But when it comes to the stuff that makes us slaves, when it comes to the stuff that kills you and me, the people He loves, He is absolutely merciless. He says 'cut it out', and so what we need to cut it out, what we need to defeat tyranny, is courage." Mass Readings from September 27, 2009: Nehemiah 11:25-29 James 5:1-6 Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48
