4th Sunday in Ordinary
Time Year C.
First Reading
Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19
Second Reading
1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13
Gospel
Luke 4:21-30
THEME: THE PAIN OF LOVE.
Sometimes people are grieved to
the heart because of what they receive from love that they show to people. Out
of your goodwill, you will show someone love and the person will turn against
you and deal with you mercilessly. Shall we stop loving?
A boy came to me one early
morning even before morning mass. He came knocking at my door at that early hour.
This was during Christmas season. I was asking who may be doing this knowing
the type of cold we do experience during that time. When I asked, he called his
name and told me that it was him. I asked him any problem and he said yes. I
opened my door and he came in. he sat down and started narrating his story. He
said, around October, I asked my girlfriend (wife to be), to start that time to
look for things that she will use for Christmas that I will not wait till
Christmas to start buying because I may not have money that time or things will
become too costly. She accepted. Continue Reading.................................
On November 9th, we went for
shopping, she bought all that she said she needed, I did not buy anything for
myself that day. When I wanted to go and buy things for myself and family, she
insisted that she will follow me to go there. I accepted and we went. After
buying because I know what women can do, I asked her to look for something that
she will pick to show that she went there with me but she said no that I have
done enough. We went home and were waiting for Christmas. On the 20th
of December, she came and told me that she needed a particular wrist watch. I
told him to snap it and send to me so that when I go out, I will see if I can
buy it. She did that. I was engaged with my work and did not buy the watch till
24th December. Someone came home from Malaysia and gave her another
type of watch superior to that one I bought. She collected the two. I did not
complain. We planned that she will come to my place on that Christmas day. When
the time we agreed reached, I called her and she told me that when she is ready
she will let me know. I respected her more than ever, for over one year I have
been dating her we have not had sex. I wanted to introduce her properly to my
people that day as my will be wife. I waited for her call but she did not call.
Some minutes to 06:00 in the evening, I called but she did not pick. I went to
their house and they told me she should be in my house. She told her people
that she was going to my house and she went to meet that boy from Malaysia who
gave her wrist watch. I could not understand but I managed to go home. In the
night I called again but she did not pick. Very early in the morning she came
to my house with a frowned face. She was barking at me for going to their house
when she asked me to wait for her call. She told me, it is over between us.
When I watched closely, I saw an engagement ring in her finger and when I
asked, she told me that those who can treat her well have taken over. I could
not talk and she left. Since then I have been thinking on what to do but
nothing has come to my brain. Please advise me.
I will stop there because the
further incident has passed the message we need from the story. My question is
now, why do people like paying good with evil?’
In the first reading, God told
Jeremiah that people will pay him with evils for the love he will show to them
by trying to bring them back to God. Likewise in the gospel. It was the
practical part of it. Jesus’ own people rejected him and his love for them and
wanted to throw him down from the mountain. In all these, we will continue to
love. We must fine reasons to love and those reasons are what St. Paul listed
for us in the second reading. Finally, love is the greatest of all thing and it
will last forever. No matter what we experience in Love, we will continue to
love for God is love. The pain of love hurts but the joy of love lasts. THANKS
AND HAPPY SUNDAY.
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