Rather abide in the Giver of the Gift,(HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 28TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 16TH 0CTOBER 2023
HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE 28TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME 16TH 0CTOBER 2023 Rom.1:1-7; Ps.98; Luke 11:29-32 Rather abide in the Giver of the Gift There is this episode of Emmanuella comedy wherein a Mathematics teacher was teaching some students (including Emmanuella) in the classroom. After a careful explanation on the syntax he wrote on the board, he asked if they understood him. He was surprised to see that virtually all the students never understood him, yet he thought he had taught wonderfully well. Needless to say that Emmanuella made the situation worse when she said that she has not understood mathematics since the previous term. The fact is, it can be frustrating when one’s effort is not producing the desired result. No one aims at failing. This situation was responsible for Jesus calling his generation an evil generation. Jesus’ experience is worse than that of the teacher in the illustration above, in that, his generation continued to flock around him as if they were intereste...