REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE 28TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 20TH OCTOBER 2023
REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE 28TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 20TH OCTOBER 2023 Rom.4:1-8; Ps.32; Luke 12:1-7 Gossip! During apprenticeship, a master exposes the apprentice to the challenges he/she will encounter when he/she becomes independent because the effectiveness of the apprentice when he/she becomes a master, will be dependent on his/her problem-solving capacity. This is actually what transpired in the gospel reading of today. The increasing number of the multitude may have elicited joy in the hearts of Jesus’ disciples. It is surprising not so for Jesus who ordinarily should rejoice more. Jesus saw a cankerworm that was capable to eating up any form of relationship and destroying any height of human effort into any adventure, if not properly handled. It is the cankerworm of gossip. The people who flocked round Jesus were not motivated by love. The good things they said to him became condemnations behind him. The Pharisees never liked him, yet they did not want him to perceive...