Homily: May 28, 2024, Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

“Set your hopes completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

St. Peter advises the people to focus on grace, to set their hopes completely on it. But what is grace, really?

Surprisingly, Google provides a very appropriate and theologically accurate answer. It says grace refers to “God’s favor toward the unworthy” or “God’s benevolence on the undeserving.”

So unworthy are we, yet God’s favor rests on us. We are graced.

So undeserving are we, yet God is lovingly benevolent towards us. We are graced.

So deep in sin are we, yet God sent His Son to die so that we are redeemed from eternal death. We are graced.

In his suffering, St. Paul pleaded with the Lord to spare him the thorn, but Jesus comforted and encouraged St. Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you.”

Indeed, it was grace that helped St. Paul go through his pain. Similarly, for all of us, God’s grace is sufficient, with it we overcome everything, we overcome sin, we overcome death.

Where can we find and obtain grace?

The principal source of grace is the sacraments. The sacrament that confers divine grace fully is the Holy Eucharist. The more open we are to the sacraments, the more abundantly we would be graced.

Our generous loving God, through His Church and ordained ministers, wants to shower us with His grace abundantly and wonderfully.

With a gift so precious, valuable, and divine, would we be so foolish as to miss it? Would we be so insane as to deny it?

Instead, let us set our hopes completely on grace. Through the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist, where the divine enters humanity, may we be filled with sanctifying grace, to enter divinity and eternity.

His grace is sufficient for us. Amen.


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