The following are homilies, images, clipart, multimedia slides and video you might find useful for your celebration of the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C). This Sunday’s Gospel tells us that Jesus performs the miracle of the great catch of fish and admonishes his first disciples to become fishers of men. And when James, John and Simon had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.

READINGS

FIRST READING: Is 6:1-2a, 3-8
PSALM: Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 7-8
SECOND READING: 1 Cor 15:1-11 or 15:3-8, 11
GOSPEL: Lk 5:1-11

VIDEO

The video below can be downloaded here.

HOMILIES

• Where “Down” Means “Up” and “Up” Means “Down” [www.bible.claret.org]
  Peter is the first person in the Gospel to acknowledge his sinfulness; he is also the first person to be called by Jesus. The Good News of the gospel is that God does not get nervous at the news of our sinfulness. He can handle sinners. Our God is one who gives sinners a new start. The scribes and pharisees liked to keep people prisoners of their sins but not so for Jesus. He moves Peter from protestation of sinfulness to the work that is ahead of him. It is important that we acknowledge our sinfulness but then to get up and live again – trusting not so much in our own goodness as in that of God. Read more…
• Do Not Be Afraid; Henceforth You Will Be Catching Men [dailyscripture.net]
  Jesus speaks the same message to us today: we will “catch people” for the kingdom of God if we allow the light of Jesus Christ to shine through us. God wants others to see the light of Christ in us in the way we live, speak, and witness the joy of the gospel… Do you witness to those around you the joy of the gospel and do you pray for your neighbors, co-workers, and relatives that they may come to know the Lord Jesus Christ and grow in the knowledge of his love? Read more…
• 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time [www.catholicmatters.com]
  How the wisdom of God differs from the wisdom of men! If a businessman of today (or even of the year 28 A.D.) were choosing a chairman and assistants for the world-wide enterprise he was about to set up, is it likely that he would choose them from among the unknown, unlettered fishermen of Galilee? Yet Christ, who was about to set up not only a world-wide institute but an everlasting one, chose these simple fishermen and made them his assistants and his successors in the work that he had taken in hand. Read more…

IMAGES

To view and download their full size versions, please click on the images or the names of the artists/sources.

Jesus Fisher of Men by brando614

Fisher of Men by www.truthbook.com

Fishers of Men by www.freewebs.com

CLIPART

by Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón (Perú)

by Maximino Cerezo

SLIDE PRESENTATION

The following presentation can be downloaded here.

GOSPEL TOON

By ReverendFun