DAILY- HOMILY

March 20, 2015 FRIDAY, 4TH WEEK OF LENT

Violet

Wis 2:1a, 12-22 / Jn 7:1-2, 10, 23-30

Reading: Wis 2:1a, 12-22

     Led by mistaken reasons they think, "Life is short and sad and there is no cure for death.

     Let us set a trap for the righteous, for he annoys us and opposes our way of life; he reproaches us for our breaches of the Law and accuses us of being false to our upbringing.

     He claims knowledge of God and calls himself son of the Lord. He has become a reproach to our way of thinking; even to meet him is burdensome to us. He does not live like others and behaves strangely.

     According to him we have low standards, so he keeps aloof from us as if we were unclean. He emphasizes the happy end of the righteous and boasts of having God as father.

     Let us see the truth of what he says and find out what his end will be. If the righteous is a son of God, God will defend him and deliver him from his adversaries.

     Let us humble and torture him to prove his self-control and test his patience. When we have condemned him to a shameful death, we may test his words."

     This is the way they reason, but they are mistaken, blinded by their malice. They do not know the mysteries of God nor do they hope for the reward of a holy life; they do not believe that the blameless will be recompensed.

Gospel: Jn 7: 1-2. 10. 25-30

     After this Jesus went around Galilee; he would not go about in Judea because the Jews wanted to kill him. Now the Jewish feast of the Tents was at hand.

   But after his brothers had gone to the festival, he also went up, not publicly but in secret.

     Some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is this not the man they want to kill? And here he is speaking freely, and they don't say a word to him? Can it be that the rulers know that this is really the Christ? Yet we know where this man comes from; but when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from."

     So Jesus announced in a loud voice in the Temple court where he was teaching, "You say that you know me and know where I come from! I have not come of myself; I was sent by the One who is true, and you don't know him. I know him for I come from him and he sent me." They would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him because his time had not yet come.

Reflection:

     The purpose of the coming of Jesus Christ as Messiah was to reconcile us with God the Father. When we want to reach out to someone we don't know, we usually try to find an intermediary who knows that person, to introduce us to him or her. It has a better effect and it achieves a more comfortable environment of familiarity. No one has ever seen or spoken to God of our original sin which has to be repaid and which can be forgiven through someone who has connections to God the Father. And what better connection than his Son, Jesus Christ. God did not send a mere emissary, a mere employee, or a mere worker. God sent his only begotten Son to be one of us.

     Christ was born into mankind, and being one of us, he took our cudgels and our case for us. He literally took our place and absorbed all our sins and repaid it with the full compensation of his life. As a result, all of us now have become co-sharers of the divine life awaiting all of us. With his resurrection, we know where Christ came from and where he is. His time has come. Let us take advantage of the light while we have it.

WE PRAY FOR MTQ DAILY PRAYER DIARY INTENTIONS:

BIRTHDAY

     CHAELDA M. DEL CARMEN

     EARNEST JAMES YU

     THELMA N. FACTORAN

IN MEMORIAM (+)

     YU TIONG (1921 – 2002)

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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