DAILY- HOMILY

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
TUESDAY 23RD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR II

FIRST CORINTHIANS 6:1-11
Is one of you with a complaint against another so brazen as to seek
judgement from sinners and not from God's holy people? Do you not
realise that the holy people of God are to be the judges of the world?
And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent for
petty cases? Do you not realise that we shall be the judges of angels?
- then quite certainly over matters of this life. But when you have
matters of this life to be judged, you bring them before those who are
of no account in the Church! I say this to make you ashamed of
yourselves. Can it really be that it is impossible to find in the
community one sensible person capable of deciding questions between
brothers, and that this is why brother goes to law against brother,
and that before unbelievers? No; it is a fault in you, by itself, that
one of you should go to law against another at all: why do you not
prefer to suffer injustice, why not prefer to be defrauded? And here
you are, doing the injustice and the defrauding, and to your own
brothers. Do you not realise that people who do evil will never
inherit the kingdom of God? Make no mistake -- the sexually immoral,
idolaters, adulterers, the self-indulgent, sodomites, thieves, misers,
drunkards, slanderers and swindlers, none of these will inherit the
kingdom of God. Some of you used to be of that kind: but you have been
washed clean, you have been sanctified, and you have been justified in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

LUKE 6:12-19
Now it happened in those days that he went onto the mountain to pray;
and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he
summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them
'apostles': Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew, James,
John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus,
Simon called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot who
became a traitor. He then came down with them and stopped at a piece
of level ground where there was a large gathering of his disciples,
with a great crowd of people from all parts of Judaea and Jerusalem
and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon who had come to hear him and
to be cured of their diseases. People tormented by unclean spirits
were also cured, and everyone in the crowd was trying to touch him
because power came out of him that cured them all.

REFLECTION
We know a lot about the apostles Peter and John, much less about the
others and only infamy about Judas Iscariot. And yet, they all shared
in the honor of having been selected by Jesus. We need not be envious
of these apostles. At baptism, Christ himself, speaking through the
priest who baptized us, called each of us by name. Perhaps we share an
apostolic name, but whatever our name, it became ours and served to
identify us.

There is something very personal about being called by name, and when
we are recognized and singled out in this manner by a person of
prominence, we are thrilled. The use of one's personal name shows
recognition, often affection and respect. We should have a proper
sense of our dignity through baptism, and we must recognize that
dignity in others. People of dignity do not stoop to actions below
them and understand how to treat others with respect. That is why St.
Paul was disappointed that the Corinthians descended so low as to hail
one another into court over squabbles and disagreements. Some people
might say that St. Paul was idealistic and native about the hard
realities of life, but that is only because they do not have his sense
of the dignity possessed by anyone who is called by Christ.

We are a group of people called and selected by Christ as surely as
were the apostles. We should never think that anyone of us is
insignificant in God's plan. We are part of the history which Christ
himself shapes. And he wants each one of us to be a part of that
history as living witnesses to faith. As we worship God today, let us
pray for the grace to live and act in accord with the Christian
dignity which is ours as people specially consecrated and dedicated to
the love and service of God and people.

PRAYER REQUESTS
We pray …
… for a deep and profound respect for life, especially for the unborn.
… for the speedy recovery and healing of
- See Yung Hui
- Jo Marcelo, Jun Lee, Mon Torres
- Rita P. Cuerva
- Susan
… for the personal intentions of
- JES
- Luis Torres
- Emz Pamplona
- Cherie Torres
… for the eternal repose of the souls of
- Sy Ching
- Farnie Luistro
Eternal rest grant unto them and may perpetual light shine upon them.
May they and all the dearly departed rest in peace.
… for all the prayer intentions in the MTQ Dailyprayer Diary.
- Birthday: Jerry Tan
… for world peace and reconciliation.

Finally, we pray for one another, for those who have asked our prayers
and for those who need our prayers the most.

Have a good day!

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