Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Homily)

September 18, 2016 5:00 pm  · Father David Mbimadong

Homilies, Ordinary Time

Science is good. But when we have science and development coming out of scientific studies, and we do not have God, with that it will be dangerous. That is what is happening to us in our world today. We use these aspects of science which should help us live a good life to destroy our lives because we do not have God with us. In the economic system it is the same.

Today in the first reading and the Gospel we heard what the Lord God said and what Jesus also said about cheating.  In the first reading the Lord God sent his prophet Amos to tell the people of his time that they were really cheating.  The strong ones, the leaders and those that were well to do were cheating the poor and the needy, they were destroying them.  If they did not change their type of life, the Lord was going to see to it that justice is done for the needy.  So also it is in our day.  Nothing has really changed.  We make rules and regulations to want to cheat one another.  The poor become poorer, the rich become richer.  But Jesus teaches that, no matter who we are, no matter where we are, and no matter how we count the wealth, the wealth belongs to everyone.  We should use that wealth to make friends, not to make enemies.  And come to think about it, that we are all created in the image of God, so when we acquire wealth and we are able to use that wealth to make friends with one another we are really making friends with God.  Today it is not the case.  We see some countries becoming rich at the expense of other countries.