Homily (Reflection) for Monday of the
Thirty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time (II) (26th November, 2018) on
the Gospel
Rev 14:1-5;
Ps 23:1-6. (R. cf. v.6);
Lk 21:1-4.
Topic: Offered to God.
Jesus saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury
and also a poor widow who put in two small copper coins. And He said,
Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of
them; for all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of
her poverty has put in all she had to live on.
But what moved this poor widow into this heroine act, giving
all she had to live on? She must have understood “that the LORD is God! It is
he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his
pasture” (Ps 100:3). Although we are
not to lazy about (cf. 2Thess 3:10)
but we must remember always that God takes care of all His creatures. Hence,
Jesus asks us not to worry about anything because no one can add a single hour
to his/her life span through worrying, cf. Matt
6:25, 27.
We ought to offer ourselves entirely to God. Our lives ought
to be in line with Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans, “If we live, we live to
the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether
we die, we are the Lord’s” (Rom 14:8).
Bible Reading: 2Cor 8:1-15.
Thought for today: We are God’s.
Let us pray: Lord, with the voice of thanksgiving
I will sacrifice to you and what I have vowed I will pay – Amen (cf. Jon 2:9).
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