HOMILY FOR 2ND THURSDAY OF LENT — YEAR A

HOMILY FOR 2ND THURSDAY OF LENT — YEAR A

HOMILY THEME: “If they will not listen either to Moses or to the prophets…”

BY: Bishop Anthony Ewherido 

Jer 17:5-10; Psalm 1: 1-4, 6; Luke 16:19-31

Even though the Lukan Lazarus episode directly warns us on the danger of the improper use of our wealth and resources, on insensitivity and indifference to the plight of the poor and needy, and on the need for just and equitable distribution of resources, the gospel’s last verse starkly represents the danger of hardheartedness and inadequate response to the call to conversion.

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What else would God have to do to convince humanity, us, to respond appropriately to his love and invitation to communion? The loss of the sense of sin is real; an affront to the efforts to journey back to God. We get so used to the normalization of sinful waywardness and no longer perceive the wrong in them. Our physical, emotional, social, economic, psychological and spiritual senses are deadened and become impenetrable by God’s word to us. Lent gives us an opportunity to look inward and see how we have been affected by this trend; how things that used to be sinful no longer seem sinful to us because our world has said so, not because God said so. Now is the decisive time to act on everything important; later may be too late, not because we are not willing, but because we cannot reverse consequences.

Lord, that I may see and attend to you in those around me. Amen.

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