Ash Wednesday Homily
What strikes me from the Gospel passage today is about this notion of privacy. Perhaps this is simply because I am a millennial. For long as I have been alive, computers have been connecting together in networks. I grew up with social media. The online world where everything and anything is shared and all too often, unfortunately, people have a tendency to joke that if it isn't on social media then it really hasn't happened. The notion of privacy is a shadow of what it once was. Everything has to be known, or at least accessible, in case someone wants to know it. So the idea that I could go to church or spend money or not eat without anyone knowing is almost a novelty. However, privacy is an important aspect of true relationship. All relationships have those aspects which are shown to the public and then those aspects which are kept between each other. Couples always have private aspects to their relationship and what set of best friends do you know that ...