HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF 17TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME. (1)
HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF 17TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME.
THEME: ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE.
BY: FR. GERALD M. MUSA.
There is a popular story of a lady who met her Pastor to declare she won’t come to church anymore.
Pope Francis greets faithful as he arrives at the Don Gnocchi Foundation for assistance to disabled and elderly to celebrate the rite of the washing of the feet, in Rome, Thursday, April 17, 2014. Pope Francis has washed the feet of 12 elderly and disabled people women and non-Catholics among them in a pre-Easter ritual designed to show his willingness to serve like a "slave." Francis' decision in 2013 to perform the Holy Thursday ritual on women and Muslim inmates at a juvenile detention center just two weeks after his election helped define his rule-breaking papacy. It riled traditionalist Catholics, who pointed to the Vatican's own regulations that the ritual be performed only on men since Jesus' 12 apostles were men. The 2014 edition brought Francis to a center for the elderly and disabled Thursday. Francis kneeled down, washed, dried and kissed the feet of a dozen people, some in wheelchairs. He said the ritual is a gesture of "a slave's service." (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF 17TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME.
THEME: ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE.
BY: FR. GERALD M. MUSA.
There is a popular story of a lady who met her Pastor to declare she won’t come to church anymore. The Pastor asked, “But why?” She said she observed some people were gossiping; others were hypocrites, and some others were pressing their phones in the middle of worship. The Pastor asked her, “Before you leave the Church could you please take a full glass of water and walk around the church three times and make sure no drop of water falls on the ground?”
After she did that, the Pastor asked, “When you were walking around the church holding the full glass of water, did you see anyone gossiping? Did you see any hypocrite or people pressing their phones? She responded, No.” He further asked: Why did you not see all these imperfect people? She answered, “It is because I was paying attention to the glass of water I was carrying and I was determined not to allow any drop to fall on the ground. So, the Pastor said to her, whenever you are focused on Jesus and your salvation, you pay little attention to the mistakes of others.
Jesus says, “The kingdom of heaven is like a net which was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind” (Matthew 13:47). Can we see the Church as a net with all kinds of members including the good and bad who are to be separated at the close of the age?
MATTHEW 13:47-53; THURSDAY, 17TH WEEK
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