HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY OF 1ST WEEK IN ADVENT SEASON, YEAR B
THEME: Jesus heals many people and multiplies the bread.
By: Fr Deotacious Chikontwe SMA
READINGS OF THE DAY
Isaiah 25:6-10
Respo Psalm 22
Matthew 15:29-37
LITURGICAL COLOUR
PURPLE
INTRODUCTION
Good morning my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate Wednesday of the first Week in Advent Season Year B. Elevated ground features in both of our readings this morning.
FROM OUR FIRST READING
In the first reading, the prophet speaks of a mountain where the Lord will be the host at a great banquet. This will be a banquet of rich food and fine wines, where all mourning, sadness and shame will have been removed, and where even death itself will have been destroyed. Here is a vision which lifts us beyond the world as we know it towards another world where all is as God wants it to be.
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FROM OUR GOSPEL READING
In the gospel reading, Jesus goes up into the hills and large crowds go up the hills after him. There in the hills of Galilee, Jesus gives speech to the dumb, mobility to the lame, sight to the blind. He goes on to feed the hungry with very limited resources. He feeds them so well that all ate as much as they wanted, and, even then, there were seven baskets full left over. The vision of Isaiah in the first reading becomes something of a reality in the gospel reading.
CONCLUSION
My dear beloved friends in Christ, both readings speak to us of a God who wants us to have life and to have it to the full. It was Saint Irenaeus who said that the glory of God is the human person fully alive. In the gospel reading, the Lord needed others to bring the sick to him; he needed the disciples to help him feed the crowd. He continues to need us if his life-giving work is to get done. Advent calls on all of us to be instruments of the Lord’s life-giving and healing presence in the world. In Advent we pray, ‘Come Lord Jesus’. We also offer ourselves as channels for the Lord’s coming.
The Lord Be With You.
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