Be Kind – God always Provide-HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY OF THE 13TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME JULY 2023
HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY OF THE 13TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Genesis 21:5, 8-20a; Ps.34; Matthew 8:28-34 Be Kind – God always Provide The birth of Isaac was clearly an extraordinary work of Divine Grace in the life of Abraham and Sarah. While this grace was gratuitously given, all the while, it has been Abraham who has been interacting with God, who pleased God through his faith and righteousness, and who was promised a child through Sarah; a child through whom Abraham will become the father of many nations. From the action of Sarah in today’s first reading, its either she never understood how the Lord had been journeying with them or she was simply greedy. She was displeased that her son Isaac was playing with Abraham’s son from their slave woman Hagar. For Sarah, such close interaction will amount to the slave woman’s son sharing Abraham’s property with her son Isaac. Now, Abraham was very rich; but Sarah wanted everything for her son alone, not minding that the other child was Abraham’s a...