DATE : 24/12/2020, Thursday of the Fourth week of Advent Year (B)
EVENT : Mass of the Weekday
COLOUR: VIOLET/ PURPLE
READINGS : 2 Samuel 7:1-5,8-12,14,16; Resp. Psalm 88:2-5,27,29; Luke 1:67-79.
THEME: A SON: THE PLEDGE OF POSTERITY
Greetings beloved people of God. I welcome you to "My Catholic Homily Digest". On this Twenty Fourth day of December, I wish to reflect with you on the theme: " A Son: The Pledge of Posterity". Beloved in Christ, one of the major reasons for quarrel and polygamy in most families is the inordinate quest for a male heir. This desperate search for a son is caused by the heavily patriarchal and patrilinear nature of most cultures of the world, which lays emphasis on the male child as the rightful heir and line of ensuring the continuity of a blood lineage. Moreso, as a natural tendency, Apart from companionship that comes with family life, another reason why people marry is the human person desire to be immortalised. And this can be attained by ensuring that posterity continues.
In the first reading of today, God made a heart cheering promise to David that of his posterity there shall be no end. What a cheerful news this must have been for king David, to be given the divine assurance that he shall be immortalised and that his dynasty shall last forever. I believe David must have died a fulfilled man. Now, this eternal promise of God about David's posterity was concretised in the incarnation of Jesus Christ, whose birth we eagerly await in few hours from now. He it was who has come to unite all peoples into a universal adoption as the sons and daughters of God, that we may participate in the posterity of David. Thus, that son which was promised to David, as a pledge that his posterity will continue, is also the son of Joseph and Mary, and the Son of God.
So beloved. the joy of Christmas is not merely that a child was born, but that this child that was born came to destroy the powers of death, of extinction and of mortality which was our lot by virtue of our sinful merit and to restore us back to the posterity of holiness and immortality which was originally ours from creation. I pray that the Son of God, Jesus Christ, will continue to be our pledge of redemption and immortality as we celebrate his nativity this Christmas... Amen
Do not be afraid for you will be remembered in my priestly prayers throughout this month. 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, you are the fulfilment of God's promise, help me to gain the promise of immortality of the children of God....
The Lord be with you....... and with your Spirit.
May Almighty God bless you in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit......Amen
@ Fada Emmanuel Nnamdi Megwara, MSP. ⛪
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