EVENT : St. Clement I, Pope, Martyr and St. Columbanus, Abbot and Missionary.
COLOUR : GREEN
READINGS : Apocalypse 14:1-5; Resp. Psalm 23:1-6; Luke 21:1-4.
THEME: THE SMALL BUT MIGHTY
Greetings beloved people of God. I welcome you to "My Catholic Homily Digest". As this new working week begins, in which we celebrate the memorial of St. Clement I and St. Columbanus, I want to reflect with us on the theme " The Small but Mighty". Beloved, during my seminary days, one of my theology lecturers, Very Rev. Fr. Prof. Raymond Olusesan Aina, MSP, who then, doubles also as the dean of Academics of the National Missionary Seminary of St. Paul, Gwagwalada, Abuja, always said to us in class, ' the devil always lies in the details'. This means that often times, that which we consider insignificant might in fact be our Waterloo. Thus, the Psalmist says: the stone which was rejected by the builders, has become the chief corner stone (Ps. 118:22). In the same light, the popular Nigerian Musician and pop star, Tekno, sang in the lyrics of his hit track RARA: "Forget about the big things oh. Say ... Say make we talk about the small things oh, yeaah". Child of God, never you look down or undermine someone or something because of their small or seemingly insignificant nature for nature itself is an incubator to small seeds.
In the Gospel reading of today, Jesus noticed and singled out the old poverty stricken widow who is already bended over, who dropped in two little copper coins in the treasury. According to Scriptural analysis on generosity, Jesus praised the woman for choosing to drop all two coins which were her 'last cards', instead of dropping one coin and keeping one just incase. Beloved, there are two lessons for us to learn from today's Gospel. First, generosity is borne out of deep love and conviction that the 'other' needs what we have more than ourselves and that a gift once given to God is never wasted but multiplied for us in other areas that we may not know, e.g, in health or divine protection or healing or aversion of impending danger etc. Secondly dear friends, God is not so much interested in the quantity of money, charity, talent or Support that we render as much as he is interested in the quality of love with which we carry out these actions.
Often time dear friends, our so called big sacrifices or gifts may not be remembered, but people will surely remember the small small sacrifices we make for them. They may not remember the 1Million naira you gave them on their wedding day, but they will surely remember the visit you paid them in the hospital, the words of comfort you said to them when everyone seems to abandon them, and the smiles you put on their faces when they were sorrowing. Beloved, like Tekno sang, let us learn to sometimes forget the big things and focus on the small things. God bless you
#End Sars,
#End Political Oppression
#End Bad Governance.
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