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Monday, August 28, 2006
Yesterday’s homily was interesting. (Joshua 24:1-2,15-18; Psalm 34:2-3, 16-21; Ephesians 5:21-32)
It talks about love – do we love only what we like? Do we love another person based on conditions (e.g. because of his/her certain good qualities)? Are we able to love the person as who he/she is – take in all the good and the bad?
We marry our wife or husband ten, twenty years ago because of certain goodness that we see in him/her. But ten, twenty years later, do we still remember why we marry the person in the first place? Are we still able to see that goodness that makes us think that “yes, he/she is the perfect one for me”? What happened to that goodness that we thought we saw but now unable to see?
In the process of living together, we may have ‘forced’ the other person to conform to the ‘qualities’ we want them to have. We have failed to accept the person as who he/she is – the unique quality that God has given him/her. We may have caused the goodness to disappear with acts that we think are harmless. E.g., constant nagging of a certain behaviour, calling each other names thinking it is harmless.
Father mentioned something – during courtship, the couples would usually call each other names like ‘cup cake, honey, sweetie, dearie etc…’ but after a while, cupcake turns into ‘that stupid old man, silly woman etc’. What happened to the ‘cup cakes and honey’? All turned mouldy?
Hmm, so all the names calling is not life-giving. We must make a choice to be life-giving. Just like in the first reading when the people chose God over gods. By choosing to follow God, we need to embrace all His Way of life and teachings …
p.s we were very blessed. A bishop from Africa (can’t remember which part) gave us a homily (915 mass) and Fr. T gave his version of the homily at the 11am mass. Both gave us different insight and during BOW, we have another interpretation. Wow!
It talks about love – do we love only what we like? Do we love another person based on conditions (e.g. because of his/her certain good qualities)? Are we able to love the person as who he/she is – take in all the good and the bad?
We marry our wife or husband ten, twenty years ago because of certain goodness that we see in him/her. But ten, twenty years later, do we still remember why we marry the person in the first place? Are we still able to see that goodness that makes us think that “yes, he/she is the perfect one for me”? What happened to that goodness that we thought we saw but now unable to see?
In the process of living together, we may have ‘forced’ the other person to conform to the ‘qualities’ we want them to have. We have failed to accept the person as who he/she is – the unique quality that God has given him/her. We may have caused the goodness to disappear with acts that we think are harmless. E.g., constant nagging of a certain behaviour, calling each other names thinking it is harmless.
Father mentioned something – during courtship, the couples would usually call each other names like ‘cup cake, honey, sweetie, dearie etc…’ but after a while, cupcake turns into ‘that stupid old man, silly woman etc’. What happened to the ‘cup cakes and honey’? All turned mouldy?
Hmm, so all the names calling is not life-giving. We must make a choice to be life-giving. Just like in the first reading when the people chose God over gods. By choosing to follow God, we need to embrace all His Way of life and teachings …
p.s we were very blessed. A bishop from Africa (can’t remember which part) gave us a homily (915 mass) and Fr. T gave his version of the homily at the 11am mass. Both gave us different insight and during BOW, we have another interpretation. Wow!
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