HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE 6TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR I. (2)

HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE 6TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR I.

THEME: Who do you say Jesus Christ is, for You?

BY: Fr. Deotatious Chikontwe SMA,

*READINGS OF THE DAY*
Genesis 9:1-13
Psalm 101:16-21,29,22-23
Mark 8:27-33

*LITURGICAL COLOUR*
GREEN

*INTRODUCTION*
We have all had to answer questions in the course of our lives. Some questions can be answered easily and quickly, without too much thought or consideration. Other questions require us to reflect carefully before we give an answer. Then, there are other questions that people have grappled with over the centuries without having come to any satisfactory answer. These questions continue to call out to us and to prompt us to keep reflecting.

*FROM THE GOSPEL READING*
Jesus in today’s gospel asks His disciples to test them with a crucial question: “Who do people say that I am?” for the people, He was a man of God and even being compared with the greatest of the prophets: John the Baptist, Elijah, and Jeremiah. But the Lord asks each of them with a personal question: “Who do you say that I am?” Peter professes that He is the Messiah, the Christ. He is the first apostle to recognize Jesus as the Anointed One (Messiah and Christ). ‘Christ’ is the Greek word for the Hebrew word Messiah, which means “Anointed One.”

*CONCLUSION*
The Lord Jesus tests each one of us personally too with the same question: “Who do you say that I am?” This is a personal question and therefore, this demands a personal response from us. It is true that we have read and heard many things about Jesus. That He is: the Son of God, sinless, forgives sin, miracle worker, a teacher, a healer, a preacher, a prophet.
When it comes to Jesus we always have more to learn, more to see, and that will be so until that eternal moment when we will come to know him as well as he now knows us.
May we have a Blessed Thursday!

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