5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 10-02-13 Theme: qualifying the unqualified!!

<5th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 10-02-13 Theme: qualifying the unqualified!! 1st Reading Is. 6:2a, 3-8 Mission. Of an unqualified 2nd Reading 1st Cor. 15:1-11 Core of our belief is Resurrection, which is the source of Paul’s missionary mandate. Gospel Luke 5:1-11 call of the disciples. As Christians called to follow God’s servant Jesus Who came into this world of ours, where there are so many difficulties to be overcome!!!!. If we turn our eyes to our own existence we find we live in a community of people, whom we call parents, relatives, friends etc. This existence extends to the neighborhood. In our own cases we find our faith is surrounded by various types of beliefs, our faith is being tested at every moment. We are challenged to prove our faith saying it belongs to a western culture. First and foremost we have to eke out our living working in such surroundings. We as believers have been selected to live impossible way of life. We cannot live like people around us. We are like salt in the vast cauldron in big container of food. Some times we launch out to into the deep for social uplift, for economic wellbeing for our own families and societies where w belong. We even have launched out into foreign countries where we have no opportunity of publicly to live our faith because we are living in an atmosphere of state religion where we cannot profess our faith publicly. Some of us have left behind our dear and near ones so we lack moral solidarity of the believing community. This existential reality poses many difficulties. Man away from his wife! Woman away from her husband. These are realities we have to face. This may some time even break the family we have been so preciously upholding. Because we are created to be as family to live our lives. In today’s reading this reality is well explained. In the first reading we find that the prophet who was chosen was not competent, but competence was bestowed on him not by simple investiture but by burning his lips. Very expressive crude way of empowering a disciple for a risky job of prophesies to the chosen people as a special mission of bringing them back to the covenant relationship. God knows how to empower his chosen ones. In the second reading we find the preacher Paul who claims his authorship to the preaching material to a tradition which has been handed over to him. A mystery of Jesus reality where God becomes man to save man. We are also part of this mystery not because we are able to comprehend this mystery. We have encountered so many problems in the life we have faced thus far. We might be facing more of these problems later, how shall we get ourselves qualified to this risky business? By participating in celebrations of our Christian belief like the Eucharist!!! This participation should not become a rudimentary act but a devotion which enhances our belief in the Divine. The Gospel where Jesus chooses his disciples. It is a wonderful passage where Jesus Christ is choosing his ministers not from anywhere outside. They were tired fishermen who knew how to fish. A fisherman of the men was demanding from them an action which demanded total trust. Jesus asks them to launch out into the deep to fish, though they are hesitant they trustingly cast their nets and what is the result!!!! We know the miracle of the catch of fish!!!! This event makes Peter the leader of the lot to realize his unworthiness and he cries out to the lord to leave him because he is very sinner!!!! Here is where the perfect man qualifies the imperfect. We have to keep our gaze on Christ. We have to live our vocation as Christians fixing our gaze on Christ. Today when we attend our Eucharistic sacramental reality let it become for us a rallying point. We can live in harmony of love our vocation as Christians. Wishing all of you a happy Christian belief.!!!!!! In union with the divine word, Fr. Juze Vaz svd div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">