HOMILY FOR THE 11TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A.
THEME: He saw the people exhausted and depressed.
BY: Fr. Justus Oruma.
(a) Jesus watched and observed the people around him, he noticed they were weak, exhausted and depressed. He immediately saw many works to be done; which is, about the betterment of the state of the people. He call his disciples to work immediately and told them, “the harvest is great but the labourers are few.
(b) Jesus saw people exhausted and finished and saw works to be done. It is terrible that we find ourselves in the world full of utilitarian spirits where most people see work and befriend only where they could gain something forgetting the words: “you received without charge, give without charge”. Unlike Jesus, in the people and place already exhausted, they would see no work to be done because there is nothing expected of people already exhausted, or without compassion take advantage of the weaknesses and poverty of the people and finish the little good lingering in them. What can we say about some leaders in the Government and Church today, who, so insensitive, do not realize especially today how exhausted and depressed people are. Jesus observed them and had compassion. Truly the labourers are few, fewer than when Jesus was speaking.
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(c) Most times we don’t realize the much work there is to be done because we do not watch, care and observed the state and condition of the people around us. Notice that Jesus told them not to go far but to begin with lost ‘house” of Israel. Just looking around the people around us, in the house, in the family, we realize that “the harvest is great”. The harvest is great because we can extend it even to the people who have nothing to do with us, just as Jesus died for us when we were still sinners, that is when we nothing, so to say, to do with him in holiness. The harvest is all about the betterment of the people exhausted and depressed. The harvest is great. It is time to ask God, Lord from which part should I begin? What can I do for you? But we must first have a heart full of compassion. In this participation we find fulfillment. It is funny and surprising to see people quarrelling and struggling for work, limiting themselves only to one or few aspects, whereas the harvest is great but labourers are few.
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