DATE : 11/1/2021, Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time year (B)
EVENT : Mass of the Weekday
COLOUR: Green
READINGS: Heb. 1:1-6; Resp. Psalm 96:1-2,6-7,9; Mark 1:14-20.
THEME: I BRING YOU GOOD NEWS
Greetings beloved people of God. I welcome you to "My Catholic Homily Digest". On this Eleventh day of January 2021, I wish to reflect with us on the theme: " I Bring You Good News". Beloved in Christ, from today we have entered the first part of the Ordinary Time of the Church. Now there are about six seasons in the Church's liturgical calendar: Advent, Christmas, first or short Ordinary Tume, Lent, Easter and then the second or long Ordinary Time. An Ordinary Time is the period of the Church in which there is no specific celebration. It is characterised chiefly by the public ministry of Jesus and of His disciples.
In the Gospel reading of today, taken from St. Mark 1:14-20, we are told that immediately Jesus heard that John the Baptist has been arrested and removed from the scene, he went abroad and began his preaching and public ministry. Indeed the prophecy of John the Baptist in John 3:30, "he must increase while I must decrease", came to fulfilment. Studying carefully the Gospel of Mark, we notice that Mark focused more on the preaching of Jesus and the Good News therein. The word "Gospel" is from the Latin evangelium and the Greek euangelion , which literally means "good news". When a king had good news to deliver to his subjects he send messengers or heralds throughout the land to make a public announcement. Such as the birth of a newborn king or the victory over an invading army or occupied force. After Jesus was baptized in the River Jordan and anointed by the Spirit he begins his ministry of preaching the good news that the kingdom of God and the salvation of His Christ has come and is inexhaustibly available for all who are ready to receive it.
Beloved in Christ, the Good News that God has been cooking for us through the mouths of the various prophets of old, and which was finally announced by Jesus, who is himself the Christ is this: That God has chosen to remit all our sins and to blot them away. That we shall be gifted anew with the sanctifying grace (the ability to commune with God), and the supernatural grace (the ability to rise above animalistic and appetitive inclination or desires). which we contracted through the disobedient of our first parents (Adam and Eve). Furthermore, Christ brought the good news of peace (restoration of relationship with God: Eph. 6:15), of hope (the hope of heaven and everlasting life: Col. 1:23 ), of immortality (God gives everlasting life: 2Tim. 1:10), and the good news of salvation (liberty from sin and freedom to live as sons and daughters of God: Eph. 1:13). Child of God, as charitable Christians, we are not to hoard this good news to ourselves alone. We are meant to invite others to come and share in this Good News, like Christ told his disciples today, to become fishers of men for God's kingdom. I pray that as the year proceeds, we may not only obtain the Good News, but also invite others to share in it.
Oh that today you would listen to his voice harden not your hearts (Ps.95:7-8).
#End Sars,
#End Political Oppression
#End Bad Governance
LET US PRAY :Lord Jesus, you came with the Good News of salvation, help me to assist in spreading this good news by my life style.......
The Lord be with you....... and with your Spirit.
May Almighty God bless you the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit......Amen
HAPPY NEW WEEK BELOVED FRIENDS
@ Fada Emmanuel Nnamdi Megwara, MSP. ⛪
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