HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT YEAR B (2)

HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT YEAR B.

HOMILY THEME: COUNTING THE COST

BY: Fr. Livinus Igbodekwe

 

HOMILY:

(LK 14:25-33)
Every major project starts with estimation of cost. He who fails to plan plans to fail, as we fondly say. Being a disciple of Jesus is a major project that must start with a balancing of account and a spiritual budgeting. Just as a company planning on a massive building project or a country planning on a siege of war, a would- be disciple is faced with the challenge of planning ahead because definitely it will cost dearly. The three things include:

A. Life: just as the three Jews damned the consequence of losing their lives in the fiery furnace than serving Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue (Daniel 3).

B. Blood Relatives : just as Abraham left his aged father and brothers for a land he had not known (Gen 12). And Moses left the court of Pharaoh and his daughter whom he may have addressed as ‘mother’ for the assignment in the burning bush.

C. Tolerance: just as Jesus carried His cross and could not cast it aside because of the inhuman treatments, the sweaty and the bloody wounds and just as He refused to come down from the cross as the onlookers instigated Him to do to.

These are the things it will cost us. Anything short of these will make our mocker, the devil to mock us at the end saying “this is the man/ woman who started following Jesus but never finished with Him”.

The saint of the day, St John of the Cross identified with the Lord’s cross lived and died on it which merited him that name. We too should have ‘cross’ associated with our names to always remind us that our life must end up on a cross.

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