DATE : 20/4/2021
EVENT : Tuesday of the Third Week of Eastertide
COLOUR: White
READINGS : Acts 7:51-8:1.
Resp. Psalm 30:3-4,6,8,17,21; John 6:30-35.
THEME: CHOOSE YOUR FOOD WISELY
Greetings beloved people of God. I welcome you to "My Catholic Homily Digest". On this Twentieth day of April, which is the second day of the third week of Eastertide, I wish to reflect with you on the theme: " Choose Your Food Wisely". Beloved in Christ, there are three basic realities that can be used to test the real character of a person namely: How does a person acts when he/she is entrusted with power. How does a person acts when money is involved in any transaction, and finally how does a person acts, when it comes to food or anything that will pass through the mouth. According to the Webster Advanced Learner's Dictionary, food is defined as, "any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life." What this means is that, food is the sustainer of life. Without food of any kind, no living organisms will survive. Whenever an organism stops to take in food, it begins to disintegrate and die gradually. Now, we know that man, unlike all other living organisms, is made up of the material and immaterial, the physical and the spiritual, the mortal and the immortal, and body and soul. He is a living dualism, made up of body and soul, and each of these, have their respective kinds of food, which sustains them. So, while other organism busy themselves searching for bodily food only, man on the other hand, has to simultaneously source for foods for his dual natures. And in the scale or hierarchy of importance, the spiritual food comes before the physical, because it is the spirit that offers life, the body has nothing really to offer. This indeed is a great task bestowed upon man, which unfortunately many people have misappropriated.
In the Gospel reading of today, John 6:30-35, Jesus said to the people asking him for material food (manna), 'I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be hungry; he who believes in me will never thirst.’ the people came to Jesus, believing that as Moses gave their forefathers manna from heaven to quench their physical hunger in the desert, Jesus, whom they mistook as the new Moses, should also rain manna upon them. But contrary to their canal expectations, Jesus offered them the higher manna (himself), as the food for their souls. The people wanted a manna which will last for few hours, but Jesus offered them a manna which will last forever, they wanted a manna which will nourish the decaying body, but Jesus offered them a manna for the undying soul. They wanted a food which will temporarily satisfy the appetite of the body, Jesus offered them the food which will satisfy the hunger of the spirit.
Child of God, what kind of food are you interested in more? What kind of food do you spend your energy pursuing? The kind that last forever or that which last for only a few hours? Beloved, Jesus is the only bread if life, he is the only source of food for our souls, he is the only life giving food which our souls need. Without Jesus, our souls will begin to disintegrate and inevitably die in the unquenchable fires of Hell. Why not come to Jesus today, while not bid him to live in you. Why not focus more on the bread of life more than on the bread to death. I pray God to aid us to understand the most important food for us and grant us the grace to go for it with all our strength.
Oh that today you would listen to his voice harden not your hearts (Ps.95:7-8).
LET US PRAY : Lord Jesus, I want you to offer me that bread of life, that daily Eucharistic meal which nourishes my soul...
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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