29 September 2024-- 26th Sunday “B”
Num 11:25-29; Jas 5:1-6; Mk 9:38...48
Homily
In the Book of Numbers, from which our first reading is taken, the people are very often complaining. Life in the desert is demanding and hard. For months they had had no food other than manna. They were fed up with this manna, which had certainly prevented them from starving to death, but which was beginning to make them nauseous. And Moses, who has been their guide since they left Egypt, has had enough of them. So the People complain about God and Moses complains about the People. God then becomes angry too (Num 11:10) and says to Moses: ‘All right! It's too much for you to carry all the people on your own. Gather 70 elders in the tent of meeting and I'll give them some of the Spirit you have received’.