Homily for October 9, 2011: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Homily for October 9, 2011: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

October 8, 2011 by Deacon Greg Kandra

 

 

This past Wednesday, the world lost a giant.

 

But I don’t mean Steve Jobs.

 

In all the news coverage given to his passing, all the accolades about his life, much of the media overlooked another life that didn’t get as much attention. But I want to give it that attention this morning.

 

I’m speaking of Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth.

 

No, he was not a household name. Unlike Steve Jobs, he was not a billionaire who graced the covers of magazines or captured the imagination of millions with his creative ideas.

 

But like Steve Jobs, he was also born to a single mother.

 

And, like Steve Jobs, what he did changed the world.

 

Fred Shuttlesworth was born in Mugler, Alabama in 1922. After finishing high school, he got married and got a job driving a truck for $1.80 an hour. He eventually began attending the Corinthian Baptist Church in Mobile, where he got a license to preach. He soon moved to Birmingham, just as the Civil Rights movement was beginning.

 

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