HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE 5TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR I.
THEME: You get round the commandment of God to preserve your own tradition.
BY: Fr. Deotatious Chikontwe SMA
*READINGS OF THE DAY*
Genesis 1:20-2:4
Psalm 8:4-9
Mark 7:1-13
*LITURGICAL COLOUR*
GREEN
*FROM OUR FIRST READING*
In our first reading of today, we heard the continuation of the story of Creation. Everything that are living as well as all the non-living matter were all created by God. He has made everything to be into existence by the power of His will alone. God has already loved us all from the very beginning, the pinnacle of His creation, the masterpiece of His work, made in His very own image. Among all of Creation, each one of us, the sons and daughters of man, are the pinnacle of God’s work, the best amongst all of His possessions. We have been created as the last of His works, as in us alone, the image of His face has been reflected.
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*FROM OUR GOSPEL READING*
In this morning’s gospel reading Jesus makes a distinction between the commandment of God, the word of God, and human tradition. He accuses the Pharisees of giving more importance to their religious traditions than to the word of God. We all have traditions of one kind or another; we have traditional ways of doing things. The church too has its traditional ways of doing things.
*CONCLUSION*
We are being reminded today, that the word of God must take priority over all human traditions, including religious traditions. The purpose of tradition should be to give expression to the word of God, to allow that word to take root in our own particular age and culture. It can happen that traditions that once served that purpose in the past may cease to do so in the present. When that happens we have to allow the word of God to purify the traditions that have ceased to serve that word. We have to keep returning to the word of God, which is in fact the church’s most ancient and authoritative tradition. The word of God remains alive and active throughout time; it works to peel away what is no longer serving the Lord in our own personal lives and in the life of our communities and institutions.
Blessed Tuesday to you All.
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