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Monday Mar 16, 2020
Homily for Monday of the 3rd Week of Lent
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
In the Bronx, a group of women head out every day to work with the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind… all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society. They are the sisters of the Missionaries of Charity, founded by St. Teresa of Calcutta, and those they serve include drug addicts, homeless men and women, patients with AIDS and unwed mothers.
All around our nation, there are college students who, despite the demands of their studies, volunteer a few hours every week to spend time with and befriend kids who have lost a parent through Big Brothers Big Sisters. Many of them believe they get just as much out of these friendships as do they little ones they serve.
Finally, here in our own parish, the people of our newly established Take & Eat program, providing meals for the sick and elderly, are already serving more than 100 people, supported by the prayers and wonderful financial support of our parishioners.
All of these people are prophets. The word prophet comes from the Greek word meaning “one who proclaims.” Not all prophets appear in the First Testament; there are prophets among us right here and right now who proclaim the Word of God in their ministries, in their compassion and kindness toward others, in their humble and ordinary efforts fill voids in people’s lives, in their answering Jesus’ command to help those most in need.
Let us pray that our Lenten observance may make us God’s worthy and faithful prophets and that every moment of our lives may find us proclaiming the Gospel of Christ.+
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