6TH FRIDAY HOMILY OF EASTER – YEAR B
HOMILY THEME: YOUR HEARTS WILL BE FULL OF JOY THAT NO–ONE WILL TAKE FROM YOU
BY: Fr. Deotacious Chikontwe SMA
Acts 18:9-18, Psalm 46:2-7, John 16:20-23
INTRODUCTION
Good morning my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate Friday of the 6th Week of Easter, Liturgical Calendar Year B.
FROM OUR FIRST READING
Today’s first reading, gives us an insight into how people in the early church supported one another in faith. We were introduced in that reading to a man called Apollos. By all accounts he was a very impressive figure; he had a sound knowledge of the Scriptures; he spoke with great eloquence, and had been given instruction in the faith, in the Way of the Lord. Yet, it is clear that he needed further instruction in the faith and that was given to him by a married couple by the name of Priscilla and Aquila. Apollos obviously had gifts that this married couple did not have, and, yet, they had something which he didn’t have; they had a fuller understanding of the way of the Lord. Apollos had a great deal to offer but he also had something to receive from this married couple.
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FROM OUR GOSPEL READING
In today’s gospel reading, Jesus is very clear about his identity, where he has come from and where he is going. He declares, ‘I came from the Father and have come into the world and now I leave the world to go to the Father’. There is a wonderful sweep in that statement. Jesus speaks of a great sweeping journey from God back to God. There is a sense in which what Jesus says of himself can be said of every human person. We have all come from the Father and we are on a lifelong journey towards the Father. This is the essential truth about human life that Jesus has come to reveal to us. Jesus’ journey to the Father helps us to travel our journey to the Father well. He shows us the way to the Father. Indeed, he says of himself, ‘I am the way’.
CONCLUSION
The way he travelled to the Father was the way of love. He gave himself in love to all, even to the point of giving his life for all. This is the way he sets before all of us, ‘love one another as I have loved’. Jesus not only shows us the way to the Father, but he also empowers us to take that way. He has sent us the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, to lead us to the complete truth, to lead us to God who is Truth. The Spirit leads us to God by empowering us to love one another as Jesus has loved us.
Bringing each other closer to the Lord is one of the greatest loving services we can render each to each other. We do that by revealing the Lord’s love to one another. Helping to bring each other to the Lord is a privileged expression of that way of love which leads us to the Father.
Happy Blessed Friday everyone!
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