Homily for Tuesday
Week 14 of Ordinary Time
July 7, 2026
Matt 9: 32-38
Christian Brothers, St.
Joseph’s Residence, N.R.
Jesus heals a mute man possessed by a demon
(James Tissot)
“His
heart was moved with pity for them” (Matt 9: 36).
Last
month our bishops consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. His heart feels for us. For all our physical and intellectual gifts
and achievements, nevertheless we’re often “troubled and abandoned, like sheep
without a shepherd” (9:36). We need
God’s love, shared with us by Jesus, to find peace and to be whole—like the
people whom Jesus healed and even raised from death in our gospel readings
yesterday (9:18-26) and today.
The
Lord wants his disciples to work in his harvest (9:37-38). That’s a shift in metaphor from looking after
sheep. But the thought’s the same: Jesus wants our hearts to be open and tender
like his, particularly to his sheep who are here around us. He wants us, for example, to drive out the
demon (9:32-33) of loneliness that a confrere may be feeling; or to dry up the
anger that may be festering in someone like yesterday’s long-suffering woman
who touched Jesus’ cloak (9:20-22).
In
the collect we prayed God to “bestow eternal gladness” on us. We have it in our power to bring a little
gladness to our brothers and staff by letting our hearts care for them,
imitating the healing power of Jesus our Lord.
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