Plucking Grain on the Sabbath
Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday In The Fifteenth Week Of Ordinary Time Matthew 12: 1-8 In today’s gospel Jesus draws on the parallels between 1 Sam 21:1-6 and his own situation. As David’s companions were hungry, so were the disciples of Jesus. As David was heir to the united kingdom of Israel, […]
Jesus yoke
Reflection on the Gospel of the Thursday In The Fifteenth Week Of Ordinary Time Matthew 11: 28-30 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me Jesus’s words begin with ” come to me. Jesus knowing the wariness and unrest in us, invites us to lean on him to abide in him and receive […]
Jesus Thanks His Father
Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Fifteenth Week Of Ordinary Time Matthew 11: 25-27 Who are the wise and who are the children, that Jesus is referring to in today’s Gospel Passage? Is it wrong to approach God with our understanding of things? Is childlike faith enough? Today Jesus is thanking […]
Woes to Unrepentant Cities
Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday In The Fifteenth Week Of Ordinary Time Matthew 11: 20-24 Todays gospel is certainly not sounding too good for the people residing in Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum. Jesus made such a strong statement against these towns because many miraculous things were provided for them yet they staunchly […]
Jesus Truth Vs. Worldy Understanding of Truth
Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday In The Fifteenth Week Of Ordinary Time Matthew 10: 34-11: 1 Today’s is an oddball Gospel Reading. It stands contrasted against the Beatitudes, and everything that Jesus stood for. So what is Jesus saying in this passage? Is he contradicting Himself? I don’t think so. Firstly, passage […]
The Purpose of the Parables
Reflection on the Gospel of the Fifteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time Matthew 13: 1-23 This the parable of the sower but the focus of the explanation seems to be not on the sower but on the seeds and where they fall. What circumstances and situations allow for these seeds to grow and bear fruit? […]
Whom to Fear
Reflection on the Gospel of the Saturday In The Fourteenth Week Of Ordinary Time Matthew 10: 24-33 Today’s gospel passage is a continuation of sending disciples for mission. Jesus choose 12 men to be with him, after that he choose 72 disciples and send them in pairs to different village to prepare the people […]
Coming Persecutions
Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday In The Fourteenth Week Of Ordinary Time Matthew 10: 16-23 Today’s gospel passage describes the hostility and opposition which the disciples are to face. Jesus warns his disciples to be prepared for rejection and persecution. ‘I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves’: […]
The kingdom of heaven has come near
Reflection on the Gospel of the Thursday In The Fourteenth Week Of Ordinary Time Matthew 10: 7-15 “Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.” You may have several needs, wants, worries, difficulties around you and still not short to if you are falling short of anything, its a sign that […]
The Twelve Apostles and their Mission
Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Fourteenth Week Of Ordinary Time Matthew 10: 1-7 God loves us, all of us, sinners, evil doers and those who reject Him included. Yesterdays Gospel spoke about the harvest, before that it spoke of the yoke of Jesus. All three readings have a common thread […]