25TH THURSDAY HOMILY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B

25TH THURSDAY HOMILY OF ORDINARY TIME YEAR B
HOMILY THEME: “Lord, make us know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart”
BY: Bishop Anthony Ewherido
Ecclesiastes 1:2-11; Psalm 89(90):3-6, 12-14, 17; Luke 9:7-9
This prayer from today’s Psalm is a profound expression of what we truly need in order to cultivate the virtue of self-knowledge. Until we know the shortness of our lives, we speak, think and act as if we are gods; as if the world must revolve around us and we become so self-absorbed that we believe that reality has its validity only from our point of view.
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Once we know the shortness of our lives, we gain the wisdom of heart that enables us to realize how vain the many things to which we cling and which claim our attention really are, including what we think is the real of essence of human existence. In the absence of such a realization, we are bound to live anxiously like Herod in today’s gospel, pursuing emptiness and vanity, while always running away from or after our own shadow. Indeed, all is vanity. Let us cling to that which is truly valuable, God and whatever endears us to God. Every other thing is temporary and must be treated, handled and related with as such. St. Paul reminds us that the world as we know it is passing away. If we cling on to it so fast that we are detached from God, we shall be washed away with it into the underworld. Knowing the shortness of our lives and gaining that wisdom of heart will redirect our attitudes toward fellow human beings, in whom we attend to the image and likeness of God. It will transform the way we devote ourselves to family and friends and the way we treat the underprivileged. It will put our skills, possessions, power, endowments and efforts at the service of God and neighbor in a selfless manner and win us eternal treasures. It will reorient and broaden our horizons beyond worldly phenomena to include an undisrupted focus on heaven and eternity with God.
Lord, make me know the shortness of my life that I may gain wisdom of heart and eternal treasures. Amen.
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