Homily for Tuesday of the 6th week in Ordinary Time Cycle II (1)

Homily for Tuesday  of the 6th week in Ordinary Time Cycle II

Theme: Temptation is not from God, God does not tempt anyone!

By: Fr. Diotacious Chikontwe SMA

Homily for Tuesday February 15 2022

*READINGS OF THE DAY*
James 1:12-18
Psalm 93:12-15,18-19
Mark 8:14-21

*FROM THE FIRST READING*
From the first reading St James teaches us that, Never, when you have been tempted, say, ‘God sent the temptation’; God cannot be tempted to do anything wrong, and he does not tempt anybody. Everyone who is tempted is attracted and seduced by his own wrong desire. Then the desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it too has a child, and the child is death.

*FROM OUR GOSPEL READING*
In our Gospel passage today, we heard the Lord Jesus speaking to His disciples with regards to the miracles He performed in feeding the five thousand men and four thousand men respectively, in which He fed the people until fully satisfied with just five loaves of bread and two fishes in the former, and seven loaves of bread in the latter, revealing that truly He loved His people that He wanted to take care of them and provide for them, and that was why He asked His disciples if they truly had believed in Him in whatever He had done before them.

*WHAT IS THE LITURGY OF TODAY TEACHING YOU AND ME?*
Like the first disciples we too can demonstrate a lack of perception, a failure to hear what Jesus is really saying to us, a failure to see what Jesus is trying to show us. We need to keep coming before the Lord in the awareness that we do not see as he wants us to see or hear as he wants us to hear. Our eyes and our ears need opening, and, perhaps, the times when we think we see and hear well are the very times when we are most blind and deaf. We need the humility, the poverty of spirit, which keeps us praying, ‘Lord, that I may see’, ‘Lord, that I may hear’.

*CONCLUSION*
Let us pray that our good Lord will strengthen our resolve to resist the temptations of the world and to be strong amidst the challenges and trials we may encounter throughout our journey of faith towards the Lord. May God bless us all in all things, now and always, forevermore.
Have a Blessed Tuesday Dear Friends in Christ Jesus!

Fr. Diotacious Chikontwe SMA