DATE : 2/3/2021
EVENT : Tuesday of the Second week of Lent
COLOUR:Violet
READINGS : Isaiah 1:10,16-20; Resp. Psalm 49:8-9,16-17,21,23; Matthew 23:1-12.
THEME: IF YOU ONLY SPEAK POLITICAL CORRECT WORDS YOU ARE A RELIGIOUS HYPOCRITE
Greetings beloved people of God. I welcome you to "My Catholic Homily Digest". On this Third day of March, I wish to reflect with you on the theme: " If You Speak Politically Correct Words You Are A Religious Hypocrite". Beloved, we live in a world and time where "words", mean little or have no meaning at all to those who say or use them. People often say things just to please others, but they really never meant a bit of what they said. Thus, the trick is this, "just tell people what they want to hear, what will excite them, and have your way with them." This is the tactics often used by political aspirers to win the votes and confidence of people. They know what the people wish to hear, and they not only say what the people wanted to hear, they also sugar coat it, to make it more irresistible to their hearers. Their main concern is only to be politically correct. They often never mean to execute half of what they have said or promised to the people.
It is very sad that most religious leaders have adopted this method, using and maintaining politically correct statements rather than exemplifying what they preach. Most preachers are aware of what the people want to hear. They know that the people want to hear words of prosperity and it shall be well with you prophecies, and they say it to the people. From my judgement, most charismatic preachers don't believe half of what they preach to people. Even if they do, most of them do not practice what they preach. This is the pain of Jesus in the gospel reading of today, Matt. 23:1-12. Jesus accused the Scribes and Pharisees, for telling the people to do the correct things which they will not do themselves. Thus the saying, " do what I say, don't do what I do" . The Pharisees felt themselves above the law, they regarded themselves more privileged than others, and so they felt that the commandments of God and the call to holiness is not for them who are already eating and dining with God, but for the Masses who are sinners.
This is the feeling and thought pattern of most Christians today, especially those within the corridors of power or those who have been given the privilege to legislate and shepherd a congregation. Even those of us who are not ministers, do we mean what we say in church and in our various meetings, or do we just say them so that we can be politically correct. Listen to me, if you preach politically correct homilies without the intention of practicing what you preach, you are a religious hypocrite. If you advice people so well and often say the correct things to be done, without ever doing the things you said, you are also a religious hypocrite. And through the first reading of today, Isa. 1:10.16-20, God is saying to you and I, who are politically correct Christians, to depart from his presence with our hypocritical attitudes.
May God help us to believe what we read in the Bible, the grace to preach what we have believed, and the strength to practice what we teach or say...Amen
Oh that today you would listen to his voice harden not your hearts (Ps.95:7-8).
LET US PRAY : Lord Jesus, help me not so much to seek public applause as I seek to do your will at all times. ....
The Lord be with you....... and with your Spirit.
May Almighty God bless you in the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit ....Amen
HAPPY WEEKEND BELOVED FRIENDS
@ Fada Emmanuel Nnamdi Megwara, MSP. ⛪
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