Summary: Homily from the Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. "'My Cross was for you. It's not to beat you into the ground, it's to lift you up from the ground. You don't have to be nailed to that sin because I was nailed to this Cross. And it doesn't have to defeat you anymore, because I laid down my life so that you could live.'" Mass Readings from September 13, 2009: Isaiah 50:5-9 James 2:14-18 Mark 8:27-35
