Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers
Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Thirty-Second Week In Ordinary Time Luke 17:11-19 One of the things which I have noticed lately is spiritual pride. And as Scott Hahn mentions in one of his talks, pride is the gateway to ruin, it bring in everything that will take us away from God’s […]
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday In The Thirty-Second Week In Ordinary Time John 2:13-22 In today’s Gospel Passage, two things stand out The festival was that of the Passover (v.13 – The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem) In preparation for this festival, which commemorated the […]
Some Sayings of Jesus
Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday In The Thirty-Second Week In Ordinary Time Luke 17:1-6 In this passage, Jesus’ anger is more towards the person who tempts and compels others to sin than the one who sins. He says it was better for this person to die than leas the little ones to sin. […]
Jesus Denounces the Scribes and Justifies a Widow
Reflection on the Gospel of the Thirty-Second Sunday In Ordinary Time Mark 12:38-44 “Out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on” … This is a very hard hitting statement. It makes me very uncomfortable. Indeed, the widow had nothing, abandoned by society, left to fend for herself, […]
Prudence and Faithfulness
Reflection on the Gospel of the Saturday In The Thirty-First Week In Ordinary Time Luke 16:9-15 Through today’s Gospel passage Jesus is sharing 3 important message to us. Jesus invites us to make use of our material possessions wisely and prudently Jesus invites us to remain faithful to the work entrusted to us Jesus invites […]
The Parable of the Dishonest Manager
Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday In The Thirty-First Week In Ordinary Time Luke 16:1-8 Honesty, Integrity, Prudence – these values come out loud in today’s gospel passage. Jesus ‘ message to us is to choose wisely when faced with a difficult situation. While choosing between God and wealth, we have to be able […]
The Parables of the Lost Sheep and Lost Coin
Reflection on the Gospel of the Thursday In The Thirty-First Week In Ordinary Time Luke 15:1-10 “This man receives sinners and eats with them,” this was the accusation of the Pharisees with regards Jesus. And Jesus in fact welcomed and fellowshipped with untouchables, those ritually not clean, especially sinners, in fact Jesus inaugurated his minister […]
The Cost of Discipleship
Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Thirty-First Week In Ordinary Time Luke 14:25-33 The words that we read in this Gospel passage draw us a picture, of Jesus being a hard task Master. But that would go against his heavenly Origins. We say that Jesus is the Son of God, and thus […]
The Inheritors of Eternal Life
Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday In The Thirty-First Week In Ordinary Time John 6:37-40 (All Souls Day) This reading is part of the Bread of Life discourse, to be found in Chapter 6, of John’s Gospel. There are many controversial (i.e. controversial to the Jews of Jesus’ time) statements that Jesus speaks of […]
The Beatitudes
Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday In The Thirty-First Week In Ordinary Time Matthew 5:1-12a (All Saints Day) The Jews followed the Ten Commandments rigorously and all the laws that were derived based on the Commandments. As time passed, the total laws that the Jews had to follow were 613 in all, the don’ts […]