Homily for the Mass the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 25 26 A

Father Damian reflects on how people often feel stuck in gloom and darkness, using the cold of January and the prophet Isaiah’s imagery to connect with the congregation’s experience. He explains that Jesus deliberately begins his ministry in the troubled and overlooked region of Zebulun and Naphtali, showing that God’s light is meant especially for places and people seen as broken or unworthy. This choice reveals that Jesus’ mission is for everyone, not just the religious elite, and that His message reaches beyond boundaries. Father Damian highlights the call of the fishermen as a kind of miracle, since ordinary people immediately leave their lives behind to follow Jesus. The homily concludes with the assurance that God takes our ordinary, even gloomy lives, shines His light upon them, and transforms them so that nothing is ever wasted.