SERMON/HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE 5TH WEEK OF LENT 22ND MARCH 2024
SERMON/HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE 5TH WEEK OF LENT 22ND MARCH 2024 Jer. 20:10-13; Ps.18; John 10:31-42 Consistency itself is Evangelization The Jews wanted to stone Jesus for the acclaimed reason that Jesus equaled himself with God. When Jesus justified this claim from their own scriptures, many more persons came to believe in Jesus there. This must have heightened the anger of the Jews; the more they try to blacklist Jesus, the more popular and accepted he became amongst the people. In the events of the holy week down through the post-resurrection accounts, the Jews continued to try harder, but to no avail: even the eventual death of Jesus did not achieve the aim of putting a stop to Jesus’ mission. Beloved, in the final analysis, good will always triumph over evil. Thus, those on the side of the good are never defeated. Ordinarily, one would expect that whatever is good will be generally accepted; but experience has shown that it is not always so. At some point in life, your offence wi...