HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF 2ND WEEK OF EASTER. (2)

HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF 2ND WEEK OF EASTER.

THEME: The Father loves the Son and has entrusted everything to him.

BY: FR. DEOTATIOUS CHIKONTWE SMA.

*READINGS OF THE DAY*
Acts 5:27-33
Psalm 33:2,9,17-20
John 3:31-36

*LITURGICAL COLOUR*
WHITE

*FROM OUR FIRST READING*
The words of Peter and the apostles to the high priest, ‘Obedience to God comes before obedience to men’, was a conviction which shaped the life of the first believers. It often brought them into conflict with the religious leaders who thought of themselves as the mediators of God’s word. For us as Christians, obedience to God is obedience to his Son, Jesus, our risen Lord, because as today’s gospel declares, ‘he whom God has sent speaks God’s own words’.

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*FROM OUR GOSPEL READING*
The gospel reading puts before us some very striking statements about Jesus. He comes from above, from heaven, and bears witness to what he has seen and heard there. He speaks God’s own words. God gives him the Spirit without reserve. God the Father has entrusted everything to his Son. All of these statements claim that Jesus has a unique relationship with God. He is the full revelation of God. That is why the reading ends with the declaration that all who believe in Jesus have eternal life, the life of God. Here and now they already share in the life of God which Jesus brings us. Eternal life is not just a life that begins after death. It is the life of God and his Son and it is received here and now by those who believe in God’s Son.

*CONCLUSION*
Eternal life is not just a life that begins after death. It is the life of God and his Son and it is received here and now by those who believe in God’s Son. Eternal life, this sharing in the life of God, begins now and will extend beyond the barrier of physical death into the undying life of God. The claims of the gospel reading about Jesus and about what he offers us take time to absorb, so striking and powerful are these claims. If what the gospel reading says is true then how we respond to Jesus, the one whom God has sent into the world, is of enormous significance. The most important decision we can make in life is to believe in the one whom God has sent into the world and allow that belief to shape the whole pattern of our life.
Lord in Your mercy hear prayers of today.

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