HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF 22ND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR I. (1)

HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF 22ND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR I.

THEME: ‘I know who you are: the Holy One of God.’

BY: FR. DEOTATIOUS CHIKONTWE SMA.

*READINGS OF THE DAY*
1 Thessalonians 5:1-6,9-11
Psalm 26:1,4,13-14
Luke 4:31-37

*LITURGICAL COLOUR*
GREEN

*INTRODUCTION*
Good morning dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate Tuesday of week 22 in Ordinary Time, Year A.

*FROM OUR FIRST READING*
is clear from today’s first reading that some members of the church in Thessalonica were asking Paul about a precise date for the return of the Lord, the Day of the Lord. In reply, Paul simply says that it will come ‘like a thief in the night’; there is no point speculating about what he calls ‘times and seasons’. He also reminds them that there is a sense in which the Day of the Lord has already come with the death and resurrection of Jesus.We already live in the light of the Day of the Lord, the light of Easter. That is why Paul goes on to say to them in that reading, ‘you are all sons and daughters of light and sons and daughters of the day’.

*FROM OUR GOSPEL READING*
In this morning’s gospel reading, the spirit of an unclean demon shouts at Jesus through the person possessed, ‘Have you come to destroy us?’ The answer to that question is ‘yes’. Jesus had come to destroy all the forces and powers that enslaved people and prevented them from becoming the full human beings that God wants them to be.

*CONCLUSION*
Dear friends in Christ, We don’t always think of Jesus’ mission as having a destructive quality. Quite rightly we think of him as a Saviour rather than as a Destroyer. Yet, he was both. For people to be saved, in the full sense of that word, certain realities have to be destroyed. Jesus was aware that he was in conflict with forces of evil, forces that had to be overcome and destroyed. The people in the synagogue recognized Jesus as a person of authority and power; his was a life-giving authority and power that worked to destroy the forces of death and destruction. That is the kind of authority and power that the risen Lord wants to share with all of us, so that we in turn can share in his life-giving work in the world, a work that continues until the end of time.
Lord in your Mercy hear our prayers.

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