HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY OF THE 10TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME CYCLE II (2)

HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY OF THE 10TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME CYCLE II

THEME: ‘Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them.

BY: Fr. Diotacious Chikontwe SMA

HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY JUNE 8 2022

*READINGS OF THE DAY*
1 Kings 18:20-39
Psalm 15:1-2,4-5,8,11
Matthew 5:17-19

*LITURGICAL COLOUR*
Green

*FROM THE FIRST READING*
In our first reading we heard how Elijah remained firm and resolute, and prayed to God, asking Him to remember His people and the love He had for them, and for Him to show forth His might before all so that the people might come to know who the one and only true God is. God sent fire from Heaven that completely consumed the sacrificial offering and Altar that Elijah built on Mount Carmel even when he had poured a lot of water on the Altar, purposefully handicapping himself against the priests of Baal. With that, God showed the people of Israel that He was indeed the one true God, deserving of worship, and not Baal, the false idol and god.

*FROM THE GOSPEL READING*
In today’s gospel reading Jesus declares that he has come not to abolish the Law and the prophets, but to fulfil the law. Jesus is the living, breathing law of God. God’s divine law was not nullified by Christ’s coming; it was united and perfected in him. He is the new law, which we fulfill through love: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” We can ask ourselves if we seek to fulfill God’s law each day by loving him above all things and loving my neighbors as ourselves.

*CONCLUSION*
Brothers and sisters in Christ, the lessons from today’s Scripture readings remind us that as Christians we are likely to encounter some or even many challenges, trials and oppositions to our beliefs and way of life. Some of us have already suffered this, just as multitudes of our predecessors had, right from the beginning of the Church. Those who were faithful to God had faced a lot of trials and sufferings, and yet, they remained firm in their faith and were adamant in their desire to continue following and proclaiming the truth of the one and only true God, the same God we worship and believe in.
Have a Blessed Wednesday.. The Lord be with you!

Fr. Diotacious Chikontwe SMA