HOMILY FOR THE TUESDAY WITHING THE OCTAVE OF EASTER, LITURGICAL CALENDAR [YEAR B]
HOMILY FOR THE TUESDAY WITHING THE OCTAVE OF EASTER, LITURGICAL CALENDAR [YEAR B]
THEME: ‘I have seen the Lord and he has spoken to me’.
BY: Fr Deotacious Chikontwe SMA
READINGS OF THE DAY
Acts 2:36-41
Psalm 32:4-5,18-20,22
John 20:11-18
LITURGICAL COLOUR
WHITE
INTRODUCTION
Good morning my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate Tuesday within the Octave of Easter.
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FROM OUR FIRST READING
In our first reading today, Peter show us all, in his courageous stand for the Risen Lord. He proclaimed to the people, convincing so many among those people, astounded by their words and wisdom, and many of them able to understand the words of the Apostles because of the gift of tongues that the Holy Spirit had given them. We heard how three thousand people gave themselves to be baptised on that day, and that marked the beginning of the public face of the Church, which was unveiled to the whole world on Pentecost. This also reminds us all of the important mission and calling that we ourselves have as Christians, to be God’s faithful disciples and followers, and to do His will in all opportunities, as much as possible.
FROM OUR GOSPEL READING
There is a very strong emphasis in this morning’s gospel reading on the weeping of Mary Magdalene. She stood outside the tomb weeping. The angels asked her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ Jesus asked her, ‘Why are you weeping?’ She weeps because she cannot find the Lord. We weep when we lose someone who is significant for us, or when we cannot seem to connect with someone important to us, no matter how hard we try. We search and we cannot find, and, so, we grieve. In the case of Mary, she searched and she found – or, rather, the Lord for whom she was searching found her, as he called out to her by her name, ‘Mary’.
CONCLUSION
Dear brethren, we may not always succeed in finding our loved ones for whom we search, but we will always find the Lord if we search for him, because he is always searching for us. He is the good shepherd who calls his own by name. The Lord is calling our name, even before we begin to search for him. Our finding the Lord is always in response to the Lord’s search for us. He came to seek and to save the lost, and we are all lost to some degree. The Lord seeks us out in his love. All we need to do is to put ourselves in the way of his searching love, as Mary Magdalene did. She has something to teach us about seeking the Lord in our pain and loss.
The Risen Lord be with You.
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