GOD DOES NOT INTERFER IN HUMAN FREEDOM (John 6:60-69) Homily for Saturday of the 3rd week of Easter 7th May 2022
Theme: GOD DOES NOT INTERFER IN HUMAN FREEDOM (John 6:60-69) Homily for Saturday of the 3rd week of Easter 7th May 2022 Just like the bird called the pelican that lives in the African desert. The mother's undying love for the young ones at the time of crisis or shortage of food is so sensational that the mother pecks her breast with its powerful peak and wounds itself until warm blood trickles down and nourishes the starving young ones. Thus, feeding them it dies. Brother and sister in Christ, Jesus is the True Pelican, who through the offering of his body and blood, died upon the cross to bring salvation to the whole world. He says in Jn 6: 53-57 “very truly I tell you unless you eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them on the last day; for my flesh is true food and blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in ...