The First Commandment

Reflection on the Gospel of the Thirty-First Sunday In Ordinary Time Mark 12:28b-34 The heart of the matter is Love of God. Love isn’t self centered. It is a relationship of self-giving and accepting love in return. The state of your heart is a reflection of your relationship with God and neighbour through God. Nobody […]

Humility and Hospitality

Reflection on the Gospel of the Saturday In The Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time Luke 14:1,7-11 In today’s gospel we see Jesus being invited to a meal by a chief Pharisee. There he notices how people claimed places of importance and thus self glorification. Looking at the crowd Jesus taught them by sharing with them […]

Jesus Heals the Man with Dropsy

Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday In The Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time Luke 14:1-6 A rhetorical question is posed by Jesus to the Pharisees, who obviously had no face to reply! The Pharisees had raised objections when Jesus’s disciples picked corn on the Sabbath and also when Jesus healed a man on the […]

Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles

Reflection on the Gospel of the Thursday In The Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time Luke 6:12-19 (Feasts: Apostles Simon & Jude) Jesus as human had the authority from God to do everything, and as God he was Lord and Master of all. Yet he did not use his divine will and practiced his Human will. […]

The Narrow Door

Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time Luke 13:22-30 The narrow door, what can we liken it to? Poverty, choosing difficult paths and making difficult choices? Maybe its all these, but lets look at Jesus and understand what was his narrow doorway. I think his night in the […]

The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast

Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday In The Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time Luke 13:18-21 You only require to believe and let Jesus into your life… Yes that is what even John 3:16 is all about, that we believe and open the door of our heart to companionship with God. Then it is his […]

Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman

Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday In The Thirtieth Week In Ordinary Time Luke 13:10-17 Once again, we see the hypocrisy of the leaders who lacked compassion and complete knowledge of who God Almighty was.  In the name of God, they had made 365 rules and most of them were on Sabbath day which […]

The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus

Reflection on the Gospel of the Thirtieth Sunday In Ordinary Time Mark 10:46-52   Today’s Gospel is a faith story. A blind man named Bartimaeus is sitting by the roadside begging, dependent on the generosity and experiences many taunts of passers by. It is something that he has grown accustomed to but isn’t happy about. […]

Repentance of the Barren Fig Tree

Reflection on the Gospel of the Saturday In The Twentyninth Week In Ordinary Time Luke 13:1-9 Today’s gospel passage is an open invitation for everyone to repent. To repent is to return, to repair, to restore ones relationship with God. The call for repentance is not for God’s chosen people alone, but also extends to […]

Understanding theSigns of the Time

Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday In The Twentyninth Week In Ordinary Time Luke 12:54-59 One of the things that intrigues human attention is a peek into the future. We are very curious to predict the future as well as know before hand what the future holds for us.  In today’s gospel passage, Jesus […]