Reflection/Homily: Sixth (6th) Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B (February 12 2012)

Looking at the world, I think the world is suffering from IGNORANCE in PHD. PHD stands for Poverty, Hunger and Disease. Ignorance means lack of knowledge or awareness. It also includes lack of skills to solve a particular problem even if there is awareness of it. Poverty means the state of being extremely poor and we can confirm that most people in the world are not only financially poor but technically, structurally, academically, medically, etc poor. Hunger means among other things, a strong desire for something and we can see in people the hunger for food, basic amenities, wealth, fame, political positions, etc. Disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism and we can see the abnormal conditions like terrorism (especially the boko haram insurgence in Nigeria, ), war, pride, kidnapping, sickness, fraud, even ignorance, affecting man. These problems are in chains because a poor man is a hungry man, a hungry man is an angry man and an angry man is a sick man. Most often we lack something, hunger for something or suffer something but it becomes a big problem when one is ignorant of these situations or lacks the skills to confront them. Of all these, the worst is