HOMILY FOR MONDAY 10TH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B

HOMILY FOR MONDAY 10TH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B

HOMILY THEME: “OUR HELP IS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH”

BY: Bishop Anthony Ewherido 

1 Kings 17:1-6; Psalm 120(121); Matt 5:1-12

We start reading the books of Kings and Matthew’s Gospel today. Please read these books in the next two weeks for prayer and meditation. Today’s first reading reassures us that God does not desert his own in times of difficulty, once you surrender to his care. He cared for the Prophet Elijah during the famine with which he visited Israel because of their idolatrous behavior. God provided for Elijah all through, without fail.

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Speaking to his disciples as the primary audience of the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel, Jesus called them to a life that is guided by the beatitudes; the values that ensure eternal outcomes. While the first part of each beatitude expresses the mode of living expected of disciples. The second line declares the divine blessings that accompany such commitments. The last of them focuses on being steadfast amidst difficulties and persecutions, ensuring that even the threat of death does not shake one’s faith, because the Kingdom of Heaven restores all, including life itself. The Sermon on the Mount is a Christian manual of discipleship (the life-giving Constitution for Jesus’ followers). Let us listen to Jesus’ instructions, embrace them and live by them. Salt of the earth and light of the world; that is who we are and should be; making Christ present and showing the way wherever we are; bringing all the gifts that God has given to us to bear on those we meet and the assignment we carry out.

Lord, open my heart to your word. Amen.

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