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The Gospel passage is about the Rich Young Man. Jesus looked at him with love and said you are lacking only one thing. “Go sell all you have and give to the poor, then come follow Me.” And the rich young man went away sad. Father Ed Broom begins his homily with an endearing story of a little boy who in 1938 rode his bike 5 miles to serve as an altar boy and then 5 miles back home, in freezing weather – 10 degrees weather or even colder. Father Ed goes on to talk about the rich young man in today’s Gospel passage. Obviously this is a call to vocation. The rich young man was good, very good, but not good enough for Jesus Christ – that’s the problem. Giving a brief historical overview, Father Ed asks this question, why don’t we have more vocations today? He goes on to give three significant and insightful reasons why we have a drought in vocations, and ends with why we should be concerned about it!
