SERMON/HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE 2ND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR II 16TH JANUARY 2024
HOMILY FOR TUESDAY OF THE 2ND WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR II 1Samuel 16:1-13; Ps.89; Mark 2:23-28 Seek to please the Lord always When the Lord chose Saul as king, he sent Samuel to anoint him as a sign of his election. But when the Lord rejected Saul on account of his disobedience, Saul was not ripped off his kingly position; yet, he remained rejected by the Lord. When Samuel was grieving over Saul, it was due to his spiritual awareness of what had happened. On the physical plane, there was no need to grieve over Saul since he remained king. Now it is not clear whether Saul’s rejection was communicated to him. If it wasn’t, it means that Saul may have thought that there was no big deal about his disobedience. This is where we need to be guided. To lose the grace of God must not necessarily translate to losing some physical or material benefits/endowment. For this reason, we may be tempted to continue to disobey since life seemed to have remained normal thereafter. But the example of Sa...