FIRST READING
Isaiah 56:1, 6—7
Isaiah 56:1, 6—7
SECOND READING
Romans 11:13—15, 29—32
Romans 11:13—15, 29—32
GOSPEL
Matthew 15:21—28
Matthew 15:21—28
THEME: TRUST AND OBEY. DO NOT REACT TO EVERYTHING.
A
man went home one day with a serious wound on his face because he was
responding to what the vigilant group told him. He went to a ceremony and was
coming home late. When he reached the vigilant group, they asked him, where he
was coming from at that time of the night. He told them and they asked him to
go. When he was about to go, one of them said, odika onwere nwanyi ya na ya
mekoro n' abalia (it seems like he had something with a woman this night). Instead
of going, he came back to ask the man to repeat what he said. The vigilant man
repeated it three times and the man went fighting. During the fight he was
wounded on the face with a log of wood. Something he would have avoided. Had it
been he obeyed and went home, he would have not sustained any scratch.
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