SERMON/HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT 23RD FEBRUARY 2024
SERMON/HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT 23RD FEBRUARY 2024 Ezekiel 18:21-28; Ps.130; Matt.5:20-26 True love attracts true Blessings Every one stands the possibility of making heaven but one category of persons who cannot make heaven are those who cannot love. Heaven, being the dwelling place of God, is basically love. So those who lack the capacity to love, automatically become unfit for heaven. This inability to love is what is subtly referred to in today’s gospel reading as the righteousness of the Scribes and the Pharisees. They were people who neither understood nor practiced the law up to the point of positively impacting their environment. They merely practiced the law on the surface level. Jesus says that if we too do not practice Christianity up to the point of love, we are not practicing true Christianity. The truth is that it is not actually in the Church that we can test our level of love because most persons seem to be at their best behaviour in Church. In fact, ...