HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 2ND WEEK IN ADVENT SEASON, YEAR B

HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 2ND WEEK IN ADVENT SEASON, YEAR B

SAINT OF THE DAY Memorial of Saint Pope Saint Damasus I, Pope.

THEME: Your sins are forgiven you: get up and walk.

By: Fr Deotacious Chikontwe SMA

READINGS OF THE DAY
Isaiah 35:1-10
Psalm 8:9-14
Luke 5:17-26

LITURGICAL COLOUR
PURPLE

INTRODUCTION
Good morning my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate Monday of the second Week in Advent Season Year B. And today in a special we commemorate Memorial of Pope Saint Damasus I, Pope.

FROM OUR FIRST RRADING
In our first reading today, we heard of the Lord’s words of assurance to His people, reminding them all of His love and providence, and how He would come again into their midst to bless them and to make things right for them again, which would be marked with the appearance of wonderful miracles and supernatural events like that had never happened before. The Lord reassured His people of His love through Isaiah, as part of the prophecies that He gave them, to reveal to them the coming of His salvation through none other than Jesus Christ.

FROM OUR GOSPEL READING
The men who carried the paralyzed man to Jesus were, in a sense, a little community of faith. The gospel reading says that when they lowered the paralytic down through the roof to Jesus, he immediately recognized the faith of these men, ‘seeing their faith, he said…’ The paralytic was carried to Jesus by the faith of his friends as much as by their physical strength. There is an image here of the church. We are a community of faith. Part of our calling is to carry each other to the Lord, through our faith. The faith of any one of us helps everyone else on their journey towards the Lord. Faith is personal to each one of us, but it is never purely private. Faith always has a communal dimension.

CONCLUSION
Our relationship with the Lord impacts on everyone else in the community of faith. As we grow in our faith, we help everyone else to grow in theirs, even though we may not be consciously aware of doing so. We need the faith of others on our own journey of faith. There are times when we are like the paralyzed man in the gospel reading; we need the faith of others to carry us to the Lord and to open us up to hearing the Lord’s healing and life-giving word. There are other times when we are like those carrying the paralytic; our own faith helps to carry someone else to the Lord who is struggling to get there on their own. We journey together towards the Lord, carrying others by our faith and being carried by the faith of others. This is the essence of what it means to be church.
Have a Blessed New Week.

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