32ND FRIDAY HOMILY IN ORDINARY TIME: YEAR A

32ND FRIDAY HOMILY IN ORDINARY TIME: YEAR A

HOMILY THEME: “How have those who investigated the world been so slow to find its Master?”

BY: Bishop Anthony Ewherido

Wisdom 13:1-9, Ps. 19:2-3, 4, Luke 17:26-37

Wisdom teaches us today that we must live our lives with God in view. We are warned once more against worshipping the creature instead of the Creator. The beauty and attraction of the things that distract us from God are themselves but little glimpses of the sublimity of God. That sublimity is what we exchange for the ephemeral because of human foolishness. In the meantime, the Lord reminds us in the gospel that these distractions can be so consuming that we actually stand the risk of losing our eternal inheritance. In baptism, we pledged our lives to God, in this life, and forever in the next. Unlike Lot’s wife, we must heed Jesus’ instruction not to look back once we have placed our hands on the plough. While we are here, let us prioritize our choices, always putting God first and never losing sight of the ultimate goal of our existence. With the Psalm, may our engagement of the earth and all that is in it proclaim the glory of God: that way, we enjoy God’s goodness now, and still look forward to our eternal inheritance in heaven.

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Lord, give us the grace of final perseverance. Amen.

ADDENDUM: ST. FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI (The first American to be officially canonized a saint)
Yesterday was the feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. I consider her my personal friend because I lived and ministered in a Church and Parish under her patronage for eleven years in Coram, NY. Apart from my personal benefits from, and testimony to, her intercessory power, St. Frances Cabrini is revered as the patron saint of migrants, displaced persons and the sick/weak. That is because such people were the core of the ministry and service of this Italian immigrant, who came to America in the 19th Century and did extensive work amongst immigrants and the poor/marginalized. As we experience serious migrant crises and displacement of people and whole populations in our time, I humbly ask for the intercession of Mother Cabrini for all suffering migrants, displaced persons and the marginalized. Through her intercession, may God intervene in the situation of suffering migrants and displaced persons, ensuring and restoring their fundamental human rights and dignity. Amen.

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