Fr. Brendan McGuire - Podcasts that Break open the Word of God
Jul 17, 2026 · 6 min · 6 segments
I bring you this homily today from Florence, Italy. I am here with a group of Jesuits from throughout the whole world, those working in formation, bringing them all together to learn a little bit more…
Brendan McGuireHost
I look at that beautiful hill country here, we're right in the middle of Tuscany, and the hills are covered myself as I was sitting, looking at them, is that those vineyards and vines were planted hundreds of years ago by people who will never taste a drop of the wine that I have drank from those vineyards.
And I thought to myself, isn't that amazing? Like here, it took me to come all the way over here to realize how much we inherit from our previous generations who have planted reap the benefits from.
Isn't that true in our own lives? How much we have inherited from so many in our own lives, our parents, our grandparents, our great-grandparents, people who we will never even know.
And here we are, we're the ripe sort of beneficiaries of tremendous amount of fruit.
I look at that beautiful hill country here, we're right in the middle of Tuscany, and the hills are covered myself as I was sitting, looking at them, is that those vineyards and vines were planted hundreds of years ago by people who will never taste a drop of the wine that I have drank from those vineyards.
And I thought to myself, isn't that amazing? Like here, it took me to come all the way over here to realize how much we inherit from our previous generations who have planted reap the benefits from.
Isn't that true in our own lives? How much we have inherited from so many in our own lives, our parents, our grandparents, our great-grandparents, people who we will never even know.
And here we are, we're the ripe sort of beneficiaries of tremendous amount of fruit.
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