27th Sunday Homily of Ordinary Time Year B

27th Sunday Homily of Ordinary Time Year B

Sunday homily is to preach on churches during mass times or other liturgical celebration on Sundays. Today we are going to see here is the homily for 27th Sunday of ordinary time year b. Homily includes moral story and bible quotations that you may use them when you preach it in churches.

1. Beautiful Marriage Bible Verses. For homily
2. Moral Story – The Wise Carpenter For homily

Mass Readings for 27th Sunday Homily of Ordinary Time Year B: Gen 2:18-24, Heb 2:9-l l, Mk 10:2-16

1st Reading – Genesis 2:18-24

¹⁸ The LORD God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.”

¹⁹ So the LORD God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name.

²⁰ The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.

²¹ So the LORD God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

²² The LORD God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he brought her to the man,

²³ the man said: “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called ‘woman, ‘ for out of ‘her man’ this one has been taken.”

²⁴ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one flesh.

Homily For 27th Sunday Homily of Ordinary Time Year B

Helpmates and Homemakers

“Man leaves his father and mother and

joins himself to his wife, and they become one body” (Gen)

Once, a mean man asked his wife, “How can you be so stupid and so beautiful at the same time?” The wife replied, “God made me beautiful so you’d be attracted to me; God made me stupid so I’d be attracted to you!”

It’s not uncommon to hear men denigrate women, in general, and their wives, in particular. Many marriages are ‘on the rocks’ because spouses do not savour the sacredness of their marriage. Today’s readings stress the sanctity of marriage, situating conjugal love in the primordial act of Creation.

Many are aware that there are two creation narratives in the first two chapters of Genesis. Today’s first reading is from the second Creation story (Gen 2) – from the so-called ‘Yahwist tradition’ – where the male is created first, followed by the creation of animals, and finally, woman is created from man’s ‘rib’.

I’ve heard men remark: “Women are inferior to men since they’re only created from one of man’s ribs!” interpreting Scripture in this literal, fundamentalist fashion smacks of gross ignorance. However, what the Genesis reading does suggest is that man and woman are complementary – one has been symbolically drawn out of the other at Creation, and the two, together, are drawn to each other to form ‘one flesh’ and to help God not merely as procreators, but as ‘co-creators’.

Sadly, this first reading has been misinterpreted even by saint Paul, a product of his times, who held that women were subordinate to men (see 1 Cor 11:8-9; 1Tim 2:13). Contrary to Paul, Biblical scholars today explain that, rather than referring to subordination, the passage refers to complementariness.

Unlike the animals (whom the man names to show his dominion over them), the woman is always referred to as ‘helpmate’ or ‘helper’. Without the woman the man is, so to say, ‘incomplete’, and vice versa. Indeed, each calls forth and draws out the wifeness or husbandness of the other.

How sublime is the song that bursts forth from the depths of man: “This at last is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh!” Mind you, the word ‘flesh’ does not only refer to the physical aspect of the body, but ‘humanness’ in its entirety. In Hebrew, ‘flesh’ refers to the whole person in her/his relationship with God, with others and with Nature. Thus, it encompasses the social, emotional, spiritual, religious and psychological dimensions of the human – besides, of course, the physical.

‘The gospel reading contains two themes – on divorce and on children. There were provisions for divorce in Moses’ Law because, as Jesus points out, “of your hardness of heart!” However, Jesus once again reiterates the Genesis vision that woman and man are created “to become one flesh.” Such an interpretation makes it mandatory for us to see marriage not merely as some human contract, but as a divine Covenant created and consecrated by God.

In April 2006, the Indian Theologians Association (lTA) discussed the role of the laity, reiterating that the family is a ‘domestic church’. In July, 9,000 participants met in Valencia, Spain, to discuss the theme, “The Transmission of Faith in the ‘Family”. The document they prepared reads, “The family is for love and for life. In the family one experiences and learns that life develops better not when it is kept selfishly but when it is given generously.”

Do spouses realize that they are ‘helpmates’ and ‘homemakers’? Many are busy building houses. But homes? Hearths warm houses, hearts warm homes; houses are costly, homes are priceless; houses can be built in a year, homes require a lifetime – of sharing and caring; giving and forgiving.

As a kid, l played on the violin and sang a song I still remember: “Midst pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so lowly, there’s no place like home.” Yes, since mummy and daddy were wonderful helpmates and homemakers, there never really was anything like home.

28th Sunday Homily in Ordinary Time Year B