4TH MONDAY HOMILY OF EASTER — YEAR A
4TH MONDAY HOMILY OF EASTER — YEAR A
HOMILY THEME: “God has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too.” “I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.”
BY: Bishop Anthony Ewherido
Acts 11:1-18; Psalm 42:2-3; 43:3-4; John 10:1-10
Apart from God, change is the only permanent reality in human existence. Yet, change is often suspect and very difficult to embrace. The early Church found it difficult to embrace the change that came upon it concerning the coming of the Gentiles into the fold. What God did in a flash took the disciples a lot of discussion and explaining to embrace. Sometimes, it looks like God forced it on them through the facts of history and their experiences of the hardheartedness of the Jews and the subsequent persecution of Christians.
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Peter had to explain his involvement with Cornelius to the other disciples after they accused him for entering the house of the uncircumcised. His catch phrase was: God treated them just the same way that He treated us. God has no favorites when it pertains to making His saving grace available to humanity. God demands openness from us in that regard. We must keep the doors more open than we keep them shut; loosening much more frequently than binding, always remembering that the doors and sheepfold are Christ’s and not ours. We are simply custodians. Jesus only allows us to participate in God’s stewardship as Gatekeeper of the sheepfold to which Christ himself is the gate through whom the sheep go in and out. We should not enter and block the entrance. The abundant life, promised to us by Christ, never runs short or dry. It is an inexhaustible resource that overflows in the life of as many as are able to embrace him wholeheartedly.
Lord, open to us the doors of life everlasting. Amen.
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