HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF 16TH WEEK INORDINARY TIME.
THEME: Prophets and holy men longed to hear what you hear.
BY: Fr Deotacious Chikontwe SMA.
*READINGS OF THE DAY*
Exodus 19:1-2,9-11,16-20
Resp Psalm Daniel 3:52-56
Matthew 13:10-17
*LITURGICAL COLOUR*
GREEN
*INTRODUCTION*
Good morning dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate Thursday of week 16 in Ordinary Time, Year A.
*FROM OUR FIRST READING*
In our first reading today, we heard of the moment when the people of Israel came to the region of Mount Sinai, where God would establish His Covenant anew with them, and hence, God told Moses of what He would establish with His people, as He came down upon the mountain to be with them, and to dwell in their midst. Through Moses, God would pass to His people His Law and commandments in order to help guide and lead them down the right path.
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*FROM OUR GOSPEL READING*
In the gospel reading Jesus speaks of looking without seeing and of listening without hearing. We can all relate to what Jesus says there. We know from our own experience that we listen without hearing and look without seeing. Sometimes what is being said is not worth hearing and so we listen without paying attention, and what is visible is not really worth looking at with any attention. However, Jesus was speaking about those who look at himself without seeing him and who listen to what he says without hearing him.
*CONCLUSION*
When it comes to Jesus there is a lot to be seen and a lot to be heard. Jesus is worth more than a cursory look and a half-engaged listen. The more carefully we look at Jesus the more we will see, and the more attentively we listen to him, the more we will hear. That is what Jesus means in the gospel reading when he says, ‘for anyone who has will be given more, and he will have more than enough’. The more we attend to the Lord, the more we will receive and the more blessed we will be. As Jesus declares at the end of the reading, ‘Happy are your eyes because they see, your ears because they hear’. Jesus is alive among us as risen Lord; he is there to be seen and to be heard by us all. We hear and see him in a special sense whenever we gather to celebrate the Eucharist. Yet, the Lord is to be seen and heard in many other ways as well. He is visible and audible to us in and through each other, especially in and through those who are most vulnerable. We pray for eyes to see and ears to hear his presence among us.
We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Fr Deotacious Chikontwe SMA.
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