SERMON/HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT 19TH FEBRUARY 2024
SERMON/HOMILY FOR MONDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT 19TH FEBRUARY 2024 Lev.19:1-2, 11-18; Ps.19; Matt.25:31-46 The charity we must do! The first reading of today is a detailed instruction from God to the people of Israel on how they must live charitably with themselves. Being an instruction means that kindness towards ones neighbour is not optional at all. I have full right over what is mine, but if I refuse to share with another who does not have, I become guilty. But why should I be guilty for keeping what belongs to me? It is because God gives us to share with others. Life does not present us with equal opportunities. Many persons are privileged or less privileged out of little or no fault of theirs. But everyone has got one opportunity or the other; meaning that everyone has something to share. So, we displease God if we are not sharing what we have received. In the gospel reading, we see that this matter of sharing is very serious to the extent that it will form the basis of our ju...