REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE 29TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 26TH OCTOBER 2023
REFLECTION/HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE 29TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 26TH OCTOBER 2023 Rom.6:19-23; Ps.1; Luke 12:49-53 The Wages of Sin is Death If you do not know the worth of something or someone, you will not be able to duly appreciate the value. One factor that largely contributed to the success of the transatlantic slave trade in Africa is the ignorant of the African as to the dignity of the human person. When the African man saw the beautiful things brought by the Europeans such as their wears, mirror, guns and so on, he was so fascinated that he counted it as nothing to give up his slaves to the white man. When he ran out of slaves, he went to capture freeborn and sold them out as slaves in return for what the white was offering him. If not for ignorance, he would have known that he was engaging in a self-destructive exercise. St. Paul tells us in the first reading of today that this is what happens to us each time we give in to sin. Every temptation is a lie. The lie told is that ...