ARE YOU READY FOR THE JUDGEMENT DAY? HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 28TH WEEK IN THE ORDINARY TIME, YEAR II
Homily for Monday of the 28th week in the ordinary the, year II Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27,31; 5:1; Luke 11:29-32 The faculty of freedom to choose good and avoid evil is God's most precious gift to man. The word of God tells us: "It is the will of God that man should be left in the hand of his own counsel (sirach 15:14). True Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. It is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble and right. Using an allegory of the two sons of Abraham: one from the slave-girl and the other from the free-born wife as seen in the first reading of today, St Paul sums up the doctrinal message of his letter to the Galatians. A message on freedom of the children of God. Freedom we owe to no other person than to Christ Jesus. A lasting freedom which was obtained with a great price: the precious blood of Christ Jesus. "You were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, b...