HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF EASTER, YEAR B
HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF EASTER, YEAR B
HOMILY THEME: MISSIONARY ZEAL!
BY: FR. Benedict AGBO
Acts 8: 1 – 8, John 6: 35 – 40
Missionary zeal is dying down among the believers of today. The reason is that we are imbibing a new type of faith – a ‘refrigerator type of faith’ where we receive and don’t share with anybody. Most pastors and priests have adopted a static parish/ diocesan structure of ministry that is somehow stagnant. If Christians don’t come to our churches then we are jobless. But the right thing could have been that ‘If Mohammed does not move to the mountain, mountain should move to Mohammed’. We are told in today’s 1st reading, that persecution actually scattered the disciples of Christ into different places. People like Philip found himself in Samaria and began to minister there. Unclean spirits came out of many there and he healed many.
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Jesus says in today’s gospel that it is the will of him who sent him that he should lose nothing of all that God has given him but raise them up at the last day. He is the bread of life. Those who come to him should not hunger and those who believe in him should not thirst. He never casts out anyone who comes to him.
Let the Church get back to the fire of evangelism more than the business of structuralism. We seem to be more busy erecting Church buildings and setting up administrative structures rather than building the faith. Dioceses should be spreading the gospel into distant lands and poor places who don’t have priests and cannot afford to maintain priests and then have a way of supporting these priests posted there more like missionaries. The zones and pious societies, if they are really functional, should become the behive of spiritual and evangelical activities. Most families have actually gone spiritually comatose because no serious prayer and evangelism is going on there. We just need to do something more drastic now about firing up our missionary zeal. May God bless you today!
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