Homily for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time, June 19, 2016, Year C
Then [Jesus] said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" (Luke 9:20) Fr. Charles Irvin Senior Priest Diocese of Lansing ( Click here for today’s readings ) They come here all clothed in white, many times wearing long white garments passed down through family generations, white baptismal garments that dress up baby boys and baby girls with no gender distinction except for their names. For as we just heard in St. Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians: For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus . And so they come to be baptized, to put on Christ, to be clothed in Christ. Their families, too, parents, godparents, relatives, and friends come dressed in their Sunday finest. Perhaps you have noticed, as have I, that Black folks come to their churches dressed in their Sunday finest. So too, people fr