Jesus commands Peter to put out into the deep and let down the nets for a catch.
Here is a carpenter telling a professional fisherman how to do his job!
“Lord, show us where the fish are that You want us to catch, and we’ll cast the nets there.”

＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊  

1Corinthians 3:18-23

 Do not deceive yourselves.

If anyone of you considers himself wise in the ways of the world, let him become a fool, so that he may become wise.  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s eyes. To this, Scripture says: God catches the wise in their own wisdom.  It also says: The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is useless.

 Because of this, let no one become an admirer of humans, for everything belongs to you,Paul, Apollos, Cephas—life, death, the present and the future. Everything is yours, and you, you belong to Christ, and Christ is of God.

 

Ps 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6

To the Lord belongs the earth and all that fills it.

 

＊＊＊＊ Gospel ＊＊＊＊

Luke 5:1-11

 One day, as Jesus stood by the Lake of Gennesaret, with a crowd gathered around him listening to the word of God,   he caught sight of two boats left at the water’s edge by the fishermen now washing their nets.  He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to pull out a little from the shore. There he sat and continued to teach the crowd.

When he had finished speaking he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.”  Simon replied, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing. But if you say so, I will lower the nets.”  

 This they did and caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break.  They signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They came and filled both boats almost to the point of sinking.

Upon seeing this, Simon Peter fell at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Leave me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”  For he and his companions were amazed at the catch they had made   and so were Simon’s partners, James and John, Zebe­dee’s sons.

Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. You will catch people from now on.”  So they brought their boats to land and followed him, leaving everything.

 

 Gospel Reflection：

Kingdom-wise Peter

Simon Peter was a fool, in the worldly sense that Paul speaks about today. Having experienced the extraordinary catch of the fish resulting from the genius of Jesus, a world-wise fisherman should have immediately sensed a grand business opportunity.

Wouldn’t it be great to have Jesus joining him and then they could go fishing every day, Jesus would use his sixth sense and locate where the fish were, and boom! They would have great catch, big money, and grow rich together!

So Peter should have invited Jesus for a cup of tea and asked him to join his company, with a proposal of profit sharing. But Peter doesn’t do any of that; the only thing he can do is to be utterly conscious of his own unworthiness before the holiness of Jesus, fall to his knees, and beg Jesus to leave him, a sinful man.

World-wise, a fool. But Kingdom-wise, a fool. But Kingdom-wise, he belonged. No wonder Jesus simply wouldn’t go of him.