HOMILY OF 4TH WEDNESDAY OF THE ORDINARY TIME — YEAR A
HOMILY OF 4TH WEDNESDAY OF THE ORDINARY TIME — YEAR A
HOMILY THEME: FAMILIARITY
BY: Bishop Gerald M Musa
Hebrews 12:4-7,11-15, Psalm 102:1-2,13-14,17-18, Mark 6:1-6
“Familiarity breeds contempt—and sometimes, it also borrows your charger and never returns it!” One common phenomenon in our society is taking people for granted by placing labels on them. We like to categorize, judge, and predict people’s behavior based on their socio-cultural, professional, or racial background. This is called labeling or profiling in the social sciences. We are often impatient to encounter people closely before we judge them. At other times, we take people for granted simply because we have become too familiar with them. There is a well-known maxim that says, “Familiarity breeds contempt.” We take people and things for granted because we have become too familiar with them.
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The kinsmen and home people of Jesus took Him for granted just because He was a carpenter and the son of Mary. They said, “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at Him. Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his kin, and in his own house.” And He could do no mighty work there (Mark 6:3–5). Familiarity with Jesus hindered their faith, blinded their spiritual eyes, and disrupted the flow of grace. They could not recognize His extraordinariness. They could not see a Messiah in a carpenter.
Truly, familiarity is the mother of negligence. Do we also fall into the trap of taking our spiritual leaders, family members, and friends for granted simply because we know them too well?
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