REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF HOLY WEEK 25TH MARCH 2024
REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF HOLY WEEK 25TH MARCH 2024 Isaiah 42:1-7; Ps.27; John 12:1-11 Use your best to gain the Best It pained Judas that Mary used such an expensive ointment of pure nard to anoint the feet of Jesus. For Judas, a cheaper ointment would have served the same purpose. Obviously, the justification Judas gave for his complaint was that the costly ointment would have been sold and the money given to the poor. Scripture helped us to understand that Judas made this statement because he would steal from what was given him to keep for the poor. Invariably, Judas was not happy with the gesture of Mary because the value of that ointment would have come to him rather than Jesus. So we see that the betrayer of Judas did not start the day he approached the Jews for a bounty if he delivers Jesus to them. The betrayer started with a mindset that the best is not good enough for the Lord. Like Judas, some of us are not against giving ourselves and our resources to God but not the ...