5th Sunday of Ordinary Time
First Reading: Isaiah 6:1-8
In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple. Seraphim were stationed above. They cried one to the other, "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts!" they cried one to the other. "All the earth is filled with his glory!" At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook and the house was filled with smoke. Then I said, "Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!" Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember which he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with it. "See," he said, "now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged." Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" "Here I am," I said; "send me!"
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
I am reminding you, brothers and sisters, of the gospel I preached to you, which you indeed received and in which you also stand. Through it you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures; that he appeared to Kephas, then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been ineffective. Indeed, I have toiled harder than all of them; not I, however, but the grace of God that is with me. Therefore, whether it be I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
Gospel Reading: Luke 5:1-11
Reflection: Fr. James Theophilus
Jesus was followed by a crowd. Crowd was pressing on to him. Crowd was so great that it pushed him into the sea. Jesus started his ministry in Nazareth and had reached Capernaum, the village of Simon. The followers started from Nazareth had reached Capernaum (Jesus had been working miracles all along). He never neglected his teaching ministry. He continued his teaching even after reaching the Lake. Certainly Simon listened to his teaching.
Because Simon had listened to the teaching of Jesus he could not refuse him when he told him to cast the net. Jesus waited for Simon to come back after the catch of fish (he had finished his teaching and probably he was conversing with the crowd that was thinning out). He waited until Simon and his friends returned and then he shocked them by calling them to be his disciples). Simon having listened to him and now having seen the miracle could not but say "Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man."
Because Simon had listened to the teaching of Jesus he could not refuse him when he told him to cast the net. Jesus waited for Simon to come back after the catch of fish (he had finished his teaching and probably he was conversing with the crowd that was thinning out). He waited until Simon and his friends returned and then he shocked them by calling them to be his disciples). Simon having listened to him and now having seen the miracle could not but say "Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man."
