Heaven in the Young (HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE NINETEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR II (AUGUST 13, 2024
HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE NINETEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR II (AUGUST 13, 2024) Ezekiel 2:8-3:4; Ps.119; Matthew 18:1-5,10,12-14 Heaven in the Young As humans, we unconsciously develop scale of preference for persons and things in our lives. There are persons we see to be more important to us than others. When these persons invite us for celebrations, we don’t give excuses; when we miss their calls, we return it as soon as possible; when they come visiting, we give them our best, and so on. Our action will be the reverse for those who may not be too important to us. If you are important to a highly placed personality in the society, you are said to be connected. It is with this mindset that the disciples of Jesus approached him in today’s gospel asking “who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” They wanted to know what attributes in a person catches God’s attention the most such that the person will be more important to God than the others. The question about greatest is act