Homily for Tuesday of the 26th week in the O.T.
1 October 2024
Job 3, 1-3.11-17.20-23; Luke 9, 51-56.
Dear brothers and sisters,
When Jesus made his last long ascent from Galilee to Jerusalem, he had to pass through Samaria. Tensions between the Jews of Jerusalem and the Samaritans were high, and in the first Samaritan village where Jesus wanted to stop with His disciples, they refused to receive Him, precisely because He was going up towards Jerusalem. The two disciples, James and John, would like to bring down fire from heaven on these Samaritans, to destroy them. A bit like Saint Paul, who persecuted Christians as enemies of God until he met Jesus on the road to Damascus.