Homily by Fr. Danichi Hui on Sept. 22, 2024
Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
September 22, 2024 | Sunday
Readings:
Wisdom 2:17-20; | Psalms 54:3-4, 5, 6-8; | James 3:16--4:3; | Mark 9:30-37;
Story: On a cold November night in Times Square, Officer Lawrence DePrimo was working at a counter terrorism post when he encountered an older, barefooted homeless man. The officer disappeared for a moment, then returned with a new pair of boots, and knelt to help the man lace them up and put them on.
The act of kindness would have gone unnoticed and mostly forgotten, had it not been for a tourist.
Her snapshot- taken with her cellphone on Nov. 14 and posted to the New York Police Department’s Facebook page late the next day, made Officer DePrimo an overnight Internet hero.
When he was interviewed by a local media outfit about the kind gesture, he recalled the incident saying,“It was freezing out and you could see the blisters on the man’s feet,” he said in an interview. “I had two pairs of socks and I was still cold.” It moved me to go to a near by shoe store.
He continued to recall, when I got into the store, I told a salesman that I am looking for boots. Like what the usual question of a salesman if it is for the buyer or someone else. I told the salesman that it would be for a homeless I saw barefooted.
The salesman showed me an all weathered boots and offered his employee discount to lessen the cost. Since then, I kept the receipt in my pocket to remind me “that sometimes people have it worse.”
Thinking that some people have it worse, pushes me to be selfless. For thinking of oneself to always have it worse, will make you selfish.
Lesson: Selflessness is putting the needs of others before my own needs, desires, or convenience.
Biblical: My dear brothers and sisters, this is the lesson that we could learn from our readings today.
There was a discussion among Jesus' disciples about who was the greatest. But prior to their discussion, Jesus was already telling his disciples what would happen to him. As Jesus narrated, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men, and they will kill him, and three days after his death, the Son of Man will rise.”
Reflection: Hindi nila nauunawaan kung bakit sinasabi iyon ni Hesus. Takot naman sila magtanong. But what they do not know is that, even before they were discussing about who the greatest is, Jesus is already telling them what greatness is. (Bago pa nila pagtalunan kung ano ang kadakilaan, pinapakita na ni Hesus sa kanila kung ano ang kadakilaan)
That is to be handed over to men and be killed, and after his death the Son of Man will rise.
The word “hand over” comes from the Greek word "paradosis,” which means giving or surrendering. This is what greatness means-to know how to give or surrender. In the case of Jesus, what he is about to give is not material but himself. His very self. He will allow himself to be killed, but he will rise again.
Isn’t this greatness? Yung kaya mong magbigay ng buong sarili. At hindi lang basta sarili kundi buong buhay. Greatness is being selfless.
That is why Jesus said, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all” (Ang sinumang nagnanais maging una ay dapat maging huli sa lahat, at maging lingkod ng lahat).
Biblical: This is the warning of St. James in our Second Reading, as he wrote in his letter, “Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every foul practice.
Contemporary: Pansinin natin ang isang pamilyang may makasarili, andoon ang kaguluhan. Lahat nagbibigay ng ambag, pero ang isa ayaw mag-ambag. Diba ang gulo na agad? Nagsisilipan, nagkukuwentahan at nag-gugulangan.
Imagine, uunahin ng isang empleyado ang sariling kapakanan kaysa sa kapakanan ng kumpanya? Hadi ba’t babagsak ang kumpanya?
Ang isang bansa na may mga makasariling pinuno, hindi ba’t naghihirap ang mamamayan?
My dear brothers and sisters, remember, where there is selfishness, there is disorder. That is why selflessness is greatness because it gives order, and the right order is, be the last, and you will be first.
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