Homily (Reflection) for Tuesday of
the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time (I) (29th October, 2019) on the
Gospel
Rom 8:18-25;
Ps 125. (R.v.3);
Lk 13:18-21.
Topic: Things that matter.
We normally go about in search of things that have the
potential of bringing about great results. In the process of doing this, we
trample down on many things we judged insignificant.
However, in today’s gospel, our attention is taken away from
the conventional ‘great things’ to the things that really matter. This gospel
is made up of the parables of the mustard seed and the yeast. Jesus first
compared the kingdom of God to a mustard seed that someone sowed in the garden.
It grew and became a tree, and provided branches for the birds of the air to
make nests. He also compared it to yeast
a woman mixed “with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened.”
Both the mustard seed and the yeast represented the things
people easily look down on. However, their real potentials are far beyond their
physical appearances. Things that really matter are not distinguished by their
sizes. Their physical sizes are not always colossal.
We must take everything, both the good and the bad, very
serious. It is impossible to say to what extent the positive or negative
effects of our actions, inactions, words, and thoughts will go. Hence, Saint
Paul admonished us, “whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to
the glory of God” (1Cor 10:31).
Again, “whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord
Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” (Col 3:17). And we must do everything as service to the Lord, cf. Col 3:23.
Bible Reading: Phil 3:12-4:1.
Thought for today: Do not neglect anything.
Let us pray: Lord, give us the grace to see your
goodness in everything especially those ones people often neglect – Amen.
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