SERMON/HOMILY FOR TUESDAY SECOND WEEK OF LENT 27TH FEBRUARY 2024
SERMON/HOMILY FOR TUESDAY SECOND WEEK OF LENT 27TH FEBRUARY 2024 Isaiah 1:10, 16-20; Ps.50; Matthew 23:1-12 Leaders too are Pilgrims! It is our duty to help one another to make heaven. By so doing, we will be learning how to live in heaven while on earth. In heaven, we shall collaborate not compete. It is on this note that ensuring that our neigbhour obeys the commandment becomes our concern too. However, no matter how strong we may think we are in striving towards attaining eternal life, we should not forget that we are fellow pilgrims with the weak. We are not helping others to achieve what we have achieved already; we are rather helping others to join us in the race to heaven. In the gospel reading of today, it is obvious that the Scribes and the Pharisees did not understand this fact. Being custodians of the law, they melted it out to the people as if they were the lawgiver themselves. They forgot that the law applied to them too and that they too were pilgrims to heaven. The pride...