5:00 AM wakeup worked today (Sunday). I'll try it again next week. 5:15 would've meant too much of a rush for the hours which are already suffering from my bad habit of going too quickly. 4:45 AM may still be necessary, depending. But I'll give the 5:00 AM another try next week.
By the way, the 8:00 AM version of the homily was an improvement over the night before. And (I'm updating this after the 10:00 AM) the 10:00 AM was better still.
The transitions need to be sharper. That's because the main points are not well defined. So, here's what they are:
What's the Sermon on the Mount?
What's Divine Filiation?
How does Divine filiation help us love our enemies?
That's the flow of the homily. Transitions, then, should be.
"Love your enemies" will be too hard if we've missed the whole point of the Sermon. Let's take a step back and look at the Sermon on the Mount for a minute.
Jesus reveals a bombshell about God: he's our father. "Luuuke, I am your faaahtherrr." "NOOO!!!"
Now that we see God is our Father, here's why "Love your enemies" makes sense.
