A Wounded Healer-HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE SIXTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME (FEAST OF ST. JAMES 25TH JULY 2023
A Wounded Healer-HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE SIXTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME (FEAST OF ST. JAMES 25TH JULY 2023 2Cor.4:7-15; Ps.125; Matthew 20:20-28 A Wounded Healer Every good thing comes from God. To maintain this consciousness in men, God continues to use weak but docile vessels to carry out his mission. Today we celebrate the feast of St. James the greater. His first encounter with Jesus was when Jesus called him and his brother to himself and they obeyed, leaving their father Zebedee and their fishing occupation. It was a movement from the known to the unknown (sacrifice of comfort), as it is typical of every call of God. In the gospel reading, the Mother of James and John brought the children and asked for privileged seats in the kingdom that Jesus was going to establish. Although Jesus does not exactly grant this request, James and John together with Peter were already close companions of Jesus as shown in the cure of Peter’s mother-in-law (Mark 1:29-31), the raising of Jairus’ d...