SERMON/HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE 1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR II 11TH JANUARY 2024
SERMON/HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE 1ST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR II 11TH JANUARY 2024 1Samuel 4:1-11, 19-20; Ps.44; Mark 1:40-45 The Power of God’s Presence is not Magical The quality of our relationship with God is dependent on our understanding of him. If our understanding of him is defective, so will our relationship be. That explains why when the penny catechism asked the question: “why did God make you”, the first reason is to know him. It is our knowledge of God that will give quality to our love and service to him. For the people of Israel, they were God’s own people. God could do anything and everything for them just as he destroyed the Egyptians in the red sea for their sake. They saw themselves as even more fortunate to possess the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant meant for them the presence of God; and since only the Israelites had such Ark, they thought that God was their exclusive property. They made no mistake in seeing themselves as specially loved by God. In...