Miracle and Conversion(HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE 26TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 6TH 0CTOBER 2023
HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE 26TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Baruch 1:15-21; Ps.79; Luke 10:13-16 Miracle and Conversion God and man have longest entered into a covenantal relationship. On this relationship lies the fulfilment, peace and salvation of man. God has absolutely nothing to gain but everything to give. If man is not fulfilled as this covenantal relationship promises, then there is need to evaluate the level of commitment of each party in the covenant. The readings of today humbly but firmly reveal to us that a great deal of man's sufferings in the world is as a result of his unfaithfulness to his part in the covenantal relationship with God. Man continues to heed the old trick of the devil, namely, that if we sin against God, we will be better-off by becoming like God Like the prodigal son, we continue to calculate that leaving outside of the realm of the father will be more fulfilling. The first reading tells us that all of us are guilty of this in different ways and to differe...