HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE TWENTY- SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARYTIME, YEAR A
By: Fr Deotacious Chikontwe SMA
THEME OF THE HOMILY: The finger of God has overtaken you.
Joel 1:13-15,2:1-2
Psalm 9:2-3,6,16,8-9
Luke 11:15-26
LITURGICAL COLOUR: GREEN
INTRODUCTION
Good morning dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate Friday of week 27 in Ordinary Time, Year A.
FROM OUR FIRST READING
In our first reading today, we heard of the Lord calling on all of His people through Joel to repent and to regret their sins and wickedness, remembering how the Lord has been kind and merciful towards them and their ancestors. The prophet Joel was sent to these people at the time of their sufferings and hardships because they had disobeyed and abandoned the Law and the commandments of God as passed down to them through their ancestors. In all this, God has always been kind, patient and merciful in all of His actions and outreach towards us, but there is also a limit to how much we can be part of that love and grace, as if we constantly and repeatedly refused and rejected that mercy and love, then it is by our own conscious choice that we have landed ourselves a place in hell and eternal damnation.
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FROM OUR GOSPEL READING
According to today’s gospel reading, when some people looked at the healing ministry of Jesus, instead of seeing the finger of God, the reign of God at work, they saw the activity of Satan. The gospels suggest that Jesus was completely misunderstood by some. It is hard to imagine a greater misunderstanding that what we find in today’s gospel reading. Yet, he continued to reach out to those who misunderstood him; he worked to get them to see that it was the Holy Spirit and not some evil spirit that was at work in his ministry. Even on the cross, according to Luke, Jesus prayed for those who were executing him as a common criminal or rebel.
CONCLUSION
We can all experience misunderstanding, even if not on the scale that Jesus experienced it. It can sometimes be the price we pay for doing something worthwhile. Jesus remained faithful to his calling and his mission, in spite of the kind of misunderstanding of him that many showed. In similar circumstances, we too need to remain faithful and not lose our nerve. In doing this, the Lord’s Spirit will help us. For we are all called to see others with the eyes of Jesus, to allow Jesus to see others through us, and then to relate to them in the way Jesus would.
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