FR REMI HOMILIES/REFLECTIONS AND SERMONS

Homily for Tuesday of the 26th week in the ordinary time, year II (memorial of St. Vincent De Paul) Job 3:1-3,11-17,20-23; Lk 9:51-56 Theme: Suffering is a stepping stone to the crown The first reading in today's liturgy of the word brings to us a further description of the response of Job to the pain, misery, and anguish he found himself. Spoken about here is a man whose family and servants were wiped out by sudden tragedies, whose wealth vanished in a twinkling of an eye and was reduced to nothing. A man whose body ended up becoming the seat of a fierce and foul disease, who found himself in a pool of suffering and sorrow. The question is, what kind of response do we expect from a man wallowing in such a diminished state of life?  Job in his misfortune did not curse God but rather cursed the day of his birth. He said, "May the day perish when I was born and the night that told the story of a boy conceived. Why did I not die new-born or perish or perish as I left the womb?...