Homily for Mass of the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year C + Annual Marriage Mass, 16 October 2022

This past week, the Church marked the sixtieth anniversary of opening of the Second Vatican Council. It was an event of epic, even biblical proportions. Where there were 200-300 bishops at the Councils of Nicaea (325 AD) and Trent (1545-63), and just over 700 at the First Vatican Council (1869-70), nearly 3,000 bishops from 112 countries attended the Second Vatican Council, along with religious, lay and ecumenical observers.