Do not become ungodly! (HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE 4TH WEEK OF LENT
Homily for Friday of the 4th week of Lent Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22; Ps.34; John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Do not become ungodly! As Jesus’ passion drew nearer, those who would not belief in Him started to look for justifiable reason to reject Jesus as the Messiah, as well as get others reject Him. In doing this, they had to turn a blind eye to all the mighty works wrought by Jesus; in fact it was those mighty works that they aimed at contradicting by seeking out the slightest irregularity in Jesus. In today’s gospel, they juxtaposed his identity with the prophecy about him. The prophecy says that when the Christ comes, his origin will not be known. Now, because they knew about Jesus’ biological heritage, they thought that that was all about his origin. In their ignorance, they thought that Jesus did not fit into the prophecy. But do they really know where Jesus came from? Did they know that they never knew what they taught they knew? Was it not on the basis of their ignorance that Jesus begged t...