Fr Peter Ireorji, MSP - Homily from Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018

What sign are you waiting for that would prove that God really, really loves you? What resolution to a problem, what new job, what reconciled relationship? In Lk 11:29-33, we find out that Jesus is the sign. We need no other sign. like Jonah. Jesus emerged from the belly of death to call you and me to repentance. He is the sign we are given. Jesus died because he loves us. Then God the Father raised him from death because he loves us. Out of this tremendous love, God calls us to repent so that we can live in his love all the time. Then why are we reluctant to identify our sins and repent? We’re so determined to resolve our problems in the easiest possible way without making any sacrifices that we fail to recognize the sign of the cross. We fail to recognize the love that’s there and the love we receive when we unite our problems to the cross of Christ. We cannot understand God’s tremendous love unless we trust in that love when the odds are against us. And we can’t trust until we let go of our own ways of fixing problems. Shalom!