REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 27TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 9TH OCTOBER 2023 (Faith clarifies Mission
REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 27TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 9TH OCTOBER 2023 Jonah 1:1-17;2:1,10; Jonah 2; Luke 10:25-37 Faith clarifies Mission One of the veritable ways God reveals himself to us is in the pages of the scripture and our life experiences. In today’s first reading, Jonah struggled with beholding one attribute of God: Mercy. When God asked him to go preach against Nineveh, he decided to decline and run away not because he was afraid of the people but because he knew that in the finally analysis, God will have mercy on them and not bring about what he has threatened. Clearly, Jonah had difficulty with accepting God (faith) as a merciful God just as some Christians today have difficulty in accepting Him as a working God or a suffering God (the cross). When faith is not perfect, mission is blurred. The call of Jonah had a twofold dimension. Going to Nineveh was both a call to repentance for the people and a fulfilment of the destiny of Jonah himself. Jonah knew the first...