Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (Homily)
November 08, 2015 9:00 am · Father David Mbimadong
Today the Scriptures present to us two widows who's faith we are called to follow or imitate. Before we being, let me ask: If you were to be having only a handful of flour to prepare a meal for your family, and then a friend comes to ask for flour to go and prepare a meal for a visitor that has come and has nothing to prepare. What would you do. Today this is what we are looking at.
The first reading presents us with the Prophet Elijah, he went to a Sidonian town, Zarephath and met a widow collecting sticks to go and set fire and prepare a meal for herself and her son. He asked for water to quench his thirst, and when the woman was going away to bring him water, he called after her and said, "Bring me something to eat." She had only a handful of flour and a little oil in her jug. She told him in sincerity, "As the LORD, your God, lives, I have nothing baked; there is only a handful of flour in my jar and a little oil in my jug. Just now I was collecting a couple of sticks, to go in and prepare something for myself and my son; when we have eaten it, we shall die." She did not refuse anything to the man of God, she just told him the truth.
