HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF 12TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME. (1)

HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF 12TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME.

THEME: Always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that is the meaning of the Law and the Prophets.

BY: Fr. Deotacious Chikontwe SMA.

*READINGS OF THE DAY*
Genesis 13:2,5-18
Psalm 14:2-5
Matthew 7:6,12-14

*LITURGICAL COLOUR*
GREEN

*INTRODUCTION*
Good morning dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate Tuesday of week 12 in Ordinary Time, Year A.

*FROM OUR FIRST READING*
In today’s first reading, God called Abraham at the age of seventy five to take on a very radical change. He was to leave his homeland, Haran, and go on a journey with his family and possessions to the land of Canaan, hundreds of miles away. We hear in that reading, that ‘he went as the Lord told him’. The Lord is always calling on us to take on some new journey in our lives, even though that probably won’t mean leaving what we have come to call home. We are all on this new journey. The Lord is calling on us to set out on a new journey, and along the way we have to be patient with each other.

*FROM OUR GOSPEL READING*
In the gospel reading Jesus reduces all of the Jewish Law and the Prophets to a very short maxim, ‘always treat others as you would like them to treat you’. Jesus invites us to imagine how we would like people to treat us, to ask ourselves the question, ‘what do I really want from another person?’ Most of us would answer that question along similar lines. We want from others respect, tolerance, loyalty, understanding, compassion, justice. Having engaged in that exercise of imagining how we would like others to treat us, Jesus then declares that we should act towards others in a way that reflects those very same qualities.

*CONCLUSION*
Dear brethren, always treat others as you would like them to treat you’. If everyone were to live by that principal, it would be a very different world. There would certainly be much less conflict in the world. Jesus goes on to acknowledge that embracing such an attitude involves going through the narrow gate and taking the hard road. Yet, according to Jesus, it is the road that leads to life, life for ourselves and for others. It is a road we can take with the Lord’s help, in the power of his Spirit of life.

*BLESSINGS OF THE DAY*
May God be with us always, and may He strengthen us and empower us, to live our lives as great and most dedicated Christians. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Fr Deotacious Chikontwe SMA.

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