HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE 2ND WEEK OF ADVENT
Homily for Friday of the 2nd Week of Advent Isaiah 48:17-19; Matthew 11:16-19. The Prophet Isaiah tells us in the First Reading: "I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. O that you had listened to my commandments!" (Isa.17-18). Prophet Isaiah announces the Lord's presence who teaches us the way we should go and makes us earn the profit. Despite all that God does for us, we continue to reject Christ's teachings and suffer for the consequences of this rejection like the Jews in today's Gospel who find something wrong with everything done by Jesus. They are so obstinately preoccupied with frivolous activities, petty disputes and a public show of their piety that they are unable to see the plan of God being fulfilled and the work of God being carried out by our Lord Jesus Christ and John the Baptist. Jesus wad criticised for eating in a carefree manner and yet when John the Baptist came with an austere lifestyle, he w...