HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF 9TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME. (2)

HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF 9TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME.

THEME: Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.

BY: REV. FR. DEOTATIOUS CHIKONTWE SMA.

*SAINT OF THE DAY*
Memorial of Saint Nobert, Bishop.

*READINGS OF THE DAY*
Tobit 2:9-14
Psalm 111:1-2,7-9
Mark 12:13-17

*LITURGICAL COLOUR*
GREEN

*INTRODUCTION*
Good morning dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate Tuesday of week 9 in Ordinary Time. And in a special way, we commemorate the Memorial of Saint Nobert, Bishop.

*FROM OUR FIRST READING*
Tobit was a very good and generous man who had a reputation for looking after those in need. He was suddenly struck blind, as we read about in today’s first reading. His wife asked a very understandable question, ‘What about your own alms? What about your own good works? Everyone knows what return you have had for them’. She was saying, in other words, ‘you have been doing all these good deeds and look at what has happened to you?’ It is a question that people of faith continue to ask today. ‘He was such a good person. What did this happen to him?’ Yet, Tobias remained faithful to God, even after his personal tragedy. He didn’t cease relating to God and living out of that relationship, in spite of his misfortune.

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*FROM OUR GOSPEL READING*
In the gospel reading, Jesus gives a thought provoking response to a trick question intending to trap him about paying taxes to Caesar, ‘Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give back to God what belongs to God’. The coin his questioners were carrying, with Caesar’s head on it, belongs to Caesar and should be given back to him. What is it that belongs to God?

*CONCLUSION*
For Jesus, everything belongs to God. All of our being belongs to God, our heart, soul, strength and mind. Even when life goes against us, we still belong to God. Tobit displays this giving of one’s whole self to God, even in times of great personal distress. We don’t relate to God for what God can give us, but because of who God is. He alone is worthy of all our reverence and devotion, regardless of the circumstances in which we find ourselves.

Your Word is indeed my Strength Oh Lord our God. May You All Have a Blessed Tuesday.

*Happy Memorial of Saint Nobert, Bishop*

Rev Fr Deotacious Chikontwe SMA.

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