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Homily. Wednesday, 1st Week Advent: The Shroud in your Life

20/11/2019 by Evans Chama Leave a Comment

The shroud over God’s people

The first reading evokes strong but sombre image that makes us appreciate not only the sad experience of the people of Israel but also the intervention of God in the life of his people. It’s the image of the shroud or death linens. What does that mean for us?

We know the shroud is the veil used to cover the dead or the coffin. With that we can understand how low people have sunk in their sad experience -they are as good as dead. But that’s not the end. The word of God expresses what God is going to fulfil for his people. He’s going to remove the mourning veil from the nations; he will remove the shroud which covers the people.

Readings
Isaiah 25: 6–10
Psalm 23
Matthew 15: 29–37

The shroud in your life

Today, similarly, the word of God, this time of Advent, reminds us of our own situations of death. However, we are not meant to remain under the cover of grave linens. They shall be removed for they will no longer be necessary. Where there’s life linens for the dead become useless. That’s the consoling message of Advent.

That’s why the feast which God prepares is not the for the mighty, but the little ones, those who recognise their poverty and their situations of death.

We present ourselves before God with our different forms of death linens that cover us; let’s allow him to call us to life.

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See also:

Saturday, 1st week of Advent: Shepherd with Eye of Compassion

Friday, 1st Week of Advent: Christ’s Light in Your Life

Thursday, 1st week of Advent: A Canticle in your Life

Tuesday, 1st Week Advent: Twig from a Stump

Monday, 1st Week of Advent: On the Mountain of the Lord

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I’m Evans K. Chama, Zambian, and member of the Society of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers); former student of Lumen Vitae/Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) in Practical Theology; and Catholic university of Louvain - Master’s degree in Family, Couples and Sexuality Studies in Belgium. I'm currently serving as missionary priest at Our Lady of Africa parish, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Read More…

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