Fr. Emmanuel Megwara, MSP - Homily for Monday Week 28 Ordinary time - October 12, 2020

DATE : 12/10/2020, Monday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time (A) EVENT :Mass of the Weekday COLOUR : GREEN READINGS : Gal. 4:22-24,26-27,31-5:1; Resp. Psalm 112:1-7; Luke 11:29-32. THEME: CHRIST HAS SET YOU FREE Greetings beloved people of God. I welcome you to "My Catholic Homily Digest". As this new working week begins, I want to reflect with us on the theme, " Christ has set you Free". It is always a thing of shame to see a free-born behaving or been treated like a slave in a house or place where he or she is supposed to be free. It is no more news that in most African countries, especially in Nigeria, free bonafide citizens are often harassed and treated like slaves in their own lands. Some of the so called law enforcement agencies that were supposed to protect and defend the rights of free citizens have resorted to treating them like thrash prisoners and our leaders looked on. As if this physical assault on our freedom as bonafide citizens in our Country is not enough, spiritually, the Devil still tries to cage us, to mal-treat us, to restrict us and to bind us in the yoke of slavery. However, with His vicarious suffering, Christ has freed us from the dominion and powers of sin, sickness, poverty, hunger, passion, backwardness, untimely death and damnation, and has set us completely free and blameless. But, due to our nonchallant attitude and carelessness, we have allowed the Devil to have reasons to accuse us before God and to thwart our God given freedom. More so, due to our personal sins and life style choices, we now live like slaves, lacking all the blessings and privileges of free borns in Christ. Beloved, just like St. Paul tells us through the first reading of today that "When Christ freed us, he meant us to remain free. Therefore, let us try not to submit again to the yoke of slavery". Because if eventually we fail or refuse to live as free borns, preferring slavery, on the judgement day, the heathens and pagans who have not known Christ's redemptive grace and freedom will rise up and condemn us, for we should have known better. May God help us to shun the vices which lead us to slavery and make us live to enjoy the blessing and privileges of free borns this week and beyond...God bless you Oh that today you would listen to his voice harden not your hearts (Ps.95:7-8) LET US PRAY : Lord Jesus, your word said: "he whom the Son of man sets free is free indeed", help me by your grace to live and walk in freedom all the remaining days of my life.....Amen HAPPY NEW WEEK (BARKA DA SABUWAR MAKO) @ Fada Emmanuel Nnamdi Megwara, MSP. ⛪