HOMILY FOR THE 14TH THURSDAY OF ORDINARY TIME — YEAR A
HOMILY THEME: THE WORKER DESERVES HIS SUSTENANCE
BY: Fr. Isaac Awe
Gen 44:18-21, 23-29; 45:1-5; Psalm 105:16-21; Matt 10:7-15
Do we pray for the work of the gospel and support it with our material resources?
Here we see a double-truth: the worker of God must not be overly-concerned with material things, but the people of God must never fail in their duty to give the worker of God what he needs to sustain himself. Jesus ends his instructions with a warning: If people reject God’s invitation and refuse his word, then they bring condemnation on themselves.
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When God gives us his word there comes with it the great responsibility to respond. Indifference will not do. We are either for or against God in how we respond to his word. God gives us his word that we may have life in him. He wills to work through and in each of us for his glory. God shares he word with us and he commissions us to speak it boldly and simply to others. Do we witness the truth and joy of the gospel by word and example to those around us?
PRAYER: Lord, may the joy and truth of the gospel transform our lives that we may witness it to those around us. Grant that we may spread your truth and your light wherever we go. Amen.
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