HOMILY- TUESDAY 3RD WEEK IN ADVENT SEASON, YEAR B
THEME: Your wife Elizabeth will bear a son.
BY: Fr Deotacious Chikontwe SMA
READINGS OF THE DAY
Judges 13:2-7,24-25
Psalm 70:3-6,16-17
Luke 1:5-25
LITURGICAL COLOUR
VIOLET
INTRODUCTION
Good morning my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate the 19th December of the Advent season Year B.
FROM OUR FIRST READING
In our first reading today, we heard of the story of how Samson, one of the famous Judges to rule and guide over the Israelites, was conceived and born, during the time when the people of God were oppressed under their neighbours, the Philistines. At that time, during the years after the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and after they had arrived and settled in the lands promised to them by God in Canaan, and before the days of the kings of Israel and Judah, the people of God were ruled and guided by a series of Judges, those people whom the Lord had called and chosen to be the leaders of His people.
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FROM OUR GOSPEL READING
In today’s gospel, angel Gabriel breaks the news to Zechariah about her wife bearing a child despite her barrenness and old age. Zechariah finds it unbelievable and he is afraid too, this may be because he doesn’t know how to break this news to his kinsfolk without being labeled as being out of his mind. But God spares Zechariah from this undue burden. He intervenes and does all the talking for him. Zechariah is rendered ‘speechless and unable to talk until the days these things take place.
CONCLUSION
Like Zechariah, we can struggle to hear what is being said to us, and, strange as it may seem, we can struggle to hear the good news that the Lord proclaims to us. A voice in us can be saying ‘this is too good to be true’. We can fail to really hear the gospel, the good news that God loves us all and each one of us so much that he gave his only Son to us and for us. If we really heard that word of the Lord, that word of love, and allowed it to sink deep into our hearts, then it would transform us and would powerfully impact on how we speak, what we say and how we say.
May the Lord, our most loving God and Creator, Who has always loved us and kept us in His compassionate care and kindness, continue to help and guide us in our journey of life.
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