HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 5TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR I.
FEAST OF SAINTS PAUL MIKI AND COMPANIONS.
THEME: All those who touched him were cured.
BY: Fr. Deotatious Chikontwe, SMA.
HOMILY FOR FEBRUARY 6.
*READINGS OF THE DAY*
Genesis 1:1-19
Ps 103:1-2,5-6,10,12,24,35
Mark 6:53-56
*LITURGICAL COLOUR*
RED
*FROM OUR FIRST READING*
Today’s first reading consists of the opening nineteen verses of the Bible. It is an account of the creation of the world.
God showed His might to us, by creating all things all around us, everything that we have ever known, all of the living and non-living things in this world and beyond. He made all things because He wants us all to share in His creation, and He made us all especially in His own image, to be the most beloved among all of His created beings, and we have also been given dominion over all things, as stewards and caretakers of all creation, to be the ones who are responsible over the governance over our world, to make good use of what we have been blessed with and to be kind and good to our nature and world as well.
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*FROM OUR GOSPEL READING*
The gospel reading today conveys a sense of the great popularity of Jesus among the ordinary people of Galilee. In particular, it was the sick and broken that he attracted, because God’s healing power was at work through him. People begged him to let him touch even the fringe of his cloak, as the woman had done who was healed of her flow of blood. It was above all the broken and needy who were desperate to get to him and to connect with him.
*CONCLUSION*
In our own lives too, it is often in our brokenness that we seek out the Lord with the greatest urgency. Something happens to us that brings home to us our vulnerability, our weakness, our inability to manage. It is often in those situations when we come face to face with our limitations that we seek out the Lord with an energy and an urgency we don’t normally have. It is those moments when we experience life as a real struggle that bring home to us our need of the Lord and our dependence on him. It is often the darker and more painful experiences of life that open us up to the Lord.
I wish you a Blessed weeek and God bless you always.
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