HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE TWENTY- NINETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR A
THEME OF THE HOMILY: Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit.
By: Fr Deotacious Chikontwe SMA
READINGS OF THE DAY
Romans 5:12,15,17-21
Psalm 39:7-10,17
Luke 12:35-38
LITURGICAL COLOUR
Green
INTRODUCTION
Good morning dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate Tuesday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time, Year A.
FROM OUR FIRST READING
In our first reading today, we heard of the reminders that all of us have been saved through the works and the perfect obedience shown by one Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Saviour, the One Whom God had sent into our midst to bring us all to salvation and redemption through Him. The apostle Paul also mentioned how one man, that is Adam, and his disobedience against God had led to the downfall and damnation of mankind, to all the sufferings and challenges that we face in this world, and how this is opposed and compared to the righteousness and obedience of the Lord Jesus, Who obeyed His heavenly Father so perfectly, that by His obedience He might show all of us how we should live our lives faithfully in each and every moments of our lives.
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FROM OUR GOSPEL READING
Our gospel reading this morning calls on us to be alert to the Lord’s coming and his presence. It is a call to be faithful, to be found attentive to the Lord, whenever the Lord comes and knocks. We think of the Lord coming at the end of our lives, but there is a sense in which the Lord comes and knocks on the door of our lives every day. In the book of Revelation the risen Lord says, ‘Behold I stand at the door and knock’. The Lord comes to us in and through the people and events that make up our day. If we are attentive and alert to the Lord’s daily coming, we will be alert to his coming to us at the end of our lives.
CONCLUSION
There is an extraordinary reversal of roles in the gospel reading. The Lord who finds his servants faithfully watching and waiting becomes their servant, putting an apron on himself, sitting his servants down at table, and waiting on them. It would have been unheard of in that culture for a master to behave like a servant towards his servants, treating them effectively as if they were the master. Jesus is saying to us that if we are faithful to him, if we are attentive to the various ways that he comes and knocks on the door of our lives, he will serve us in ways that will amaze us. In giving to the Lord, we will receive from him in abundance.
Happy Blessed Independence Day To All my brothers and sisters from Zambia. We are One Zambia One Nation, One Nation and One People.
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