SERMON/HOMILY FOR SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2024
SERMON/HOMILY FOR SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2024 Isaiah 59:9c-14; Ps.86; Luke 9:22-25 Only God truly understands and knows it all Since the commencement of this holy season of lent and its message of repentance, have we being considering how the message affects us individually or are we focused on how it applies to another? Those who first and easily consider how others are to repent/do the right thing, end up never repenting or doing the right thing themselves. This was the case with the Pharisees and the Scribes in the gospel reading of today. Jesus had being going about preaching the message of repentance; but their minds were focused on how Jesus contradicted himself by eating and drinking with tax collectors. However, let us first understand the perspective of the Pharisees and the Scribes. Now, the first encounter between Jesus and Levi the tax collector was not public and private. It was in this encounter that Jesus called Levi and Levi left everything, rose and...