In the Game of Life, no one is indispensable (Homily for Wednesday of the 19th week in ordinary time 16th August 2023
HOMILY FOR WEDNESDAY OF THE 19th WEEK IN ORDINARY In the Game of Life, no one is indispensable_ In this journey of life, there are moments we feel on top of the world, we feel superhuman, we feel highly of ourselves as though no one can match our achievements. Sometimes this makes us talk down on our subordinates and treat those we consider below us with disregard, all in the name of status and position. And I ask, where are we taking those status and positions to? The story of Moses in our first reading should serve as a great lesson to you and I, for none of us can occupy a particular position in life forever. Before Moses, there was Abraham, and after Moses there will be Joshua. Before you got to where you are now, there was someone, and after you leave there, someone will take over. If so, why the pride? Why the disrespect and disregard for people? If retirement doesn’t uproot me from that seat I’m sitting on, death will surely do, and then al...