THE BLESSINGS AND GIFTS OF GOD ARE NOT ALWAYS MATERIAL (HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE 13TH WEEK IN THE ORDINARY TIME June 2022
THE BLESSINGS AND GIFTS OF GOD ARE NOT ALWAYS MATERIAL Matthew 9:1-8 Good morning dearest brothers and sisters in Christ, today the Holy Mother Church enjoins us to reflect in the liturgy of the word, the truism that the blessings and gifts of God upon us are not always material. They are in certainty mostly spiritual. This is designated even in the cure of the paralytic. We are told in the Gospel of Matthew 9:2, that “when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, 'Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven”. For Jesus, the curation of the human person is holistic: both spiritual and physical healing. But first, it proceeds from the spiritual and then to the physical. Often than not, people stereotype the blessings of God to mean only material manifestations and little if any at all is said of the spiritual benefits we receive from God. It is important to note that the primal mission of Jesus is to free humanity from the slavery of spiritual evil which is sin. To save humanity...