2ND THURSDAY HOMILY IN EASTER: YEAR A
2ND THURSDAY HOMILY IN EASTER: YEAR A
HOMILY THEME: “THIS IS THE CARPENTER’S SON, SURELY?”
BY: Bishop Anthony Ewherido
Acts 5:27-33, Psalm 34: 2,9,17-20, John 3:31-36
Today’s feast reminds us of Jesus’ humble beginnings; born into a simple Jewish family and subjected to the parental direction and tutelage of a hardworking carpenter. Jesus was rejected by people who knew these humble beginnings. Appositely, Jesus has new family; those who do the will of God, his disciples, who are his Church.
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Joseph’s faith and commitment in accepting parental responsibility for a child that he knew was not his; the vigor with which he defended both child and mother, sacrificing all for them; and the obedient fulfilment of these roles, while depending on the provision from the sweat of his labor, are exemplary. At the heart of today’s feast is the dignity of labor/work. Let us take pride in and thankfully enjoy our work. Like Joseph, whose sweat provided for the daily need of the Holy Family, we pray for humane and genuine means of providing for our livelihood. Joseph, Jesus’ foster father, the carpenter, who faithfully cared for his family, is the patron of husbands, fathers and workers. On this feast day, attention must shift from the insult of those who demeaned Jesus because his father was a carpenter, to the dignity of work that is diligently and honorably done. That is what Joseph teaches us. So, on workers day, we thank God for the gift of labor. God’s labor created our beautiful world and all the beautiful people in it. Through labor we participate in and continue God’s creative work, sustaining ourselves and our world. The commitment, attention, and goal-oriented disposition of St. Joseph, and even God’s, must be inspire our work and creative engagement with given assignments. We live in a world that is in great need of hardworking people, especially, men and fathers like Joseph. We pray for an end to unemployment, underemployment, child-labor, slave labor, labor exploitations of all kinds, and the abuse of labor through trafficking and immoral, corrupt and aberrant activities that are now classified as work. Welcome to May; Our Lady’s special month. Pray your rosary daily.
Lord, may we praise you by the work of our hands. Amen.
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