The Holiness of making a difference (HOMILY FOR 7TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Homily for 7th Sunday in ordinary time year A Lev.19:1-2.17-18; Ps.103; 1Cor.3:16-23; Matt.5:38-48 “ _Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect_ ” (Matt.5:48) The Holiness of making a difference By nature, the human person abhors stagnation. We are either struggling to be better than our yesterday or struggling to be better than others. For some, they are struggling with both. This has made the world quite a competitive place. The liturgy of today, while taking a clue from this reality, wants us to prudently apply it in our spiritual life. The liturgy of today calls us to abhor stagnation is our spirituality. We should seek to grow and get better. In fact, we may even seek to get better than others by way of outdoing one another in showing love. The point is, if we are competing in love, then it is a welcome competition. The first reading tells us to grow towards holiness like God; the second reading teaches us to struggle to be better than our very selves by respecting our bodies...