HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 18TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME CYCLE II (1)

HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 18TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME CYCLE II

THEME: The feeding of the five thousand people from the version of St Matthew’s Gospel.

BY: Fr. Diotacious Chikontwe SMA

HOMILY FOR MONDAY AUGUST 1 2022

Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Mary de’ Liguori, Bishop, Doctor.**

*READINGS OF THE DAY*
Jeremiah 28:1-17

HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 18TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME CYCLE II

THEME: The feeding of the five thousand people from the version of St Matthew’s Gospel.

BY: Fr. Diotacious Chikontwe SMA

HOMILY FOR MONDAY AUGUST 1 2022

 

Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Mary de’ Liguori, Bishop, Doctor.**

*READINGS OF THE DAY*
Jeremiah 28:1-17
Psm 118 :29,43,79-80,95,102
Matthew 14:13-21

*LITURGICAL COLOUR*
WHITE

*ABOUT THE FIRST READING*
In today’s first reading, we hear Jeremiah calling out the prophet Hananiah. The words of Jeremiah convicted Hananiah of false and rebellious teaching. Jeremiah prophesied that within a year, Hananiah would be dead. It was a strong and harsh warning and a testimony to the power of God’s word. God’s word convicts us in the truth. It leads us to recognize a false spirit from a good spirit. How do we use the Gospel as criteria for measuring our acceptance or rejection of the spirits of the world? Do we recognize the voices that lead to life and those that lead to death?

*FROM THE GOSPEL READING*
In our Gospel passage today, we heard of the Lord’s famous miraculous feeding of the five thousand men and thousands of other women and children with merely just five loaves of bread and two fishes. In that occasion, the Lord showed His great providence and love for His people, caring for the needs of those who had chosen to follow Him and devoted themselves to Him, and who had become hungry after following Him. He also wanted to highlight to us that despite our many infidelities and lack of faith in Him, our constant rebelliousness and disobedience, but He has always cared for us and for our well-being.

*CONCLUSION*
The Lord fed His people with His own hands, and gave them sustenance both in physical and spiritual manner, strengthening them with miraculously multiplied loaves of bread and fishes, as well as with the words of His wisdom and truth. He calls on us all to follow Him, the Bread of Life and the Hope of all mankind, so that we do not delude ourselves anymore with false expectations and temptations of the world, but instead, turn towards the Lord, our Saviour and King, with full and genuine faith. All of us are called to return towards the Lord and to trust in Him once again, rather than to allow ourselves to be deluded and swayed by worldly. temptations and concerns.

*NEW MONTH BLESSINGS*
May God be with us especially during this new month of August, and may He bless us always with His love. The Lord be with You!

Fr. Diotacious Chikontwe SMA

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