DAILY- HOMILY

09 August 2016         

Weekday, 19th Week in Ordinary Time

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin and Martyr

Green.        

Ez 2:8 – 3: 4 / Mt 18:1 – 5, 10, 12 – 14

Born in Breslau (now Wroclaw), Poland, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein, 1891 – 1942) became a Carmelite nun, was arrested and sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, where she died in the gas chamber.

Gospel Reading: Mt 18:1- 5, 10, 12 – 14

At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked him, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"  

Then Jesus called a little child, set the child in the midst of the disciples, and said, "I assure you unless you change and become like little children, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever becomes lowly like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and whoever receives such a child in my name receives me. 

"See that you do not despise any of these little ones, for I tell you:  their angels in heaven continually see the face of my heavently Father.  

"What do you think of this?  If someone has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, won't he leave the ninety-nine on the hillside, and go to look for the stray one?  And I tell you:  when he finally finds it, he is more pleased about it that about the ninety-nine that did not get lost.  It is the same with your Father in heaven; there they don't want even one of these little ones to be lost."

Reflection

"I assure you that unless you change and become like little children, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven."  How we wish that we could be children again with no cares in the world!  But, what Jesus meant by being child-like is someone who is not proud and worldly, someone who is accepting of other people, someone who loves unconditionally.  

That was what we are when we were born.  Unfortunately, as we age, we become so jaded with life that we forget the reason for our creation.  Living a Christ-like life is like being a child again, the key to the kingdom of heaven.

Let our prayer be:  "Lord, help me to be child-like and Christ-like in my way of life."

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