It is not often that physics gets the spotlight in a homily, but I pay special attention when it does, not because I care too much if the homilist gets the physics right (they usually do), but because I am always looking for connections between the subject I teach in school and spirituality. Recently, Father Francis Mary of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal included a bit of Newtonian gravitation in a homily about Our Lady and her humility…