3RD WEDNESDAY HOMILY OF EASTER — YEAR A
3RD WEDNESDAY HOMILY OF EASTER — YEAR A
HOMILY THEME: A DWINDLING MISSIONARY ZEAL!
BY: Fr. Benedict Agbo
Acts 8:1-8, Ps. 66:1-7, John 6:35-40
Missionary zeal is dying down among the believers of today. The reason is that we are imbibing a new type of faith – a ‘refrigerator type of faith’ that makes us receive and don’t share with anybody. Most pastors and priests have adopted a static parish/ diocesan structure of ministry that is somehow stagnant. If Christians don’t come around then we are jobless. So when they cannot move, the preachers cannot also move to them. But the right thing could have been that ‘If Mohammed does not move to the mountain, mountain should move to Mohammed’.
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We are told in today’s 1st reading, that persecution actually scattered the disciples of Christ into different places. People like Philip found himself in Samaria and began to minister there. Unclean spirits came out of many there and he healed many.
Jesus says in today’s gospel that it is the will of him who sent him that he should lose nothing of all that God has given him but raise them up at the last day. He is the bread of life. Those who come to him should not hunger and those who believe in him should not thirst. He never casts out anyone who comes to him.
There needs to be a paradigm shift for the Church in Nigeria before it is too late. During the Pandemic we succeeded in showing the world that our services are not essential services and that’s why we all had complete shut down of our ministries. Let the Church get back to the fire of evangelism more than structuralization. We seem to be more busy erecting Church buildings than building the faith. Dioceses should be spreading the gospel into distant lands and poor places who don’t have priests and cannot afford to maintain priests and then have a way of supporting these priests posted there more like missionaries.
The zones and pious societies, if they are really functional, should become a behive of missionary activities. Most families have actually gone spiritually comatose because no serious prayer and evangelism is going on there. We just need to do something more drastic now about our missionary zeal before it is too late. The Fulanization/Islamization agenda remains our common treat in Nigeria and only a strong evangelical zeal can counter it. May God bless you today!
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