17TH FRIDAY HOMILY IN ORDINARY TIME — YEAR B
17TH FRIDAY HOMILY IN ORDINARY TIME — YEAR B
HOMILY THEME: FAMILIARITY
BY: Bishop Gerald M. Musa
One common phenomenon in our society is placing labels on persons and people. We like to categorize, judge, and predict people’s behavior based on their socio-cultural, professional, or racial background. This is called labeling or profiling in the social sciences. We are often impatient to encounter people closely before we conclude about them. At other times, we take people for granted simply because we have become too familiar with them.
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There is a well-known maxim that says familiarity breeds contempt. The kinsmen and home people of Jesus took him for granted just because he is a carpenter and the son of Mary. They said, “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all his sisters with us? And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.’ And he could do no mighty work there…” (Matthew 13:55-57).
Familiarity with Jesus hindered their faith, blinded their spiritual eyes, and disrupted the flow of grace in their lives. They could not recognize his extraordinariness. They could not see a Messiah in a carpenter. Do we also fall into the trap of taking our spiritual leaders, family members, and friends for granted simply because we know them too well?
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