What the Lord expects of us! Homily for Friday of the 8th week in ordinary time JUNE 2023
HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE EIGHTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR 1 (JUNE 02, 2023) Sirach 44:1,9-13; Ps.149; Mark 11:11:25 What the Lord expects of us! On two different grounds, Jesus was disappointed in the gospel reading of today. In each of these occasions, the agents of Christ’s disappointment did not go unpunished. Expectation precedes disappointment. Christ expected fruitfulness from the tree and attitude of prayer from those who rather sold and bought in the temple. For Jesus to have cursed the tree means that all that was necessary for the tree to be fruitful was provided for the tree. For Jesus to have driven the buyers and sellers in the temple means that the people were very much aware that it was wrong to buy and sell in the temple. That explains why Jesus who was always teaching in order to emancipate ignorance, took up a decisive action. Beloved, the God who created us and saved us, has done so with so much expectations from us. He expects us to remain connected with him in pr...