The Parable of the Dishonest Manager

Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday In The Thirty-First Week Of Ordinary Time   Luke 16: 1-8 In today’s gospel, the unjust steward was lazy and dishonest. He squandered his master’s possessions. When his master discovers this, the crisis begins. He is called to give an account. The master commends the dishonest steward who […]

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

Reflection on the Gospel of the Thursday In The Thirty-First Week Of Ordinary Time   John 2: 13-22 Today’s Gospel is a difficult passage, and it is also inconsistent with what we know of God and Jesus’ action of making a whip and chasing out the moneylenders and the bazaar. According to what I have […]

The Cost of Discipleship

Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Thirty-First Week Of Ordinary Time   Luke 14: 25-33 In the Bible Cell at present we are doing a study on the Book of Genesis and we just completed Abraham’s section. One of the striking thing that we have discovered is the way Yahweh challenged Abraham […]

The Parable of the Great Dinner

Reflection on the Gospel of the Tuesday In The Thirty-First Week Of Ordinary Time   Luke 14: 15-24 In today’s gospel the parable is not about showing courtesy to others. But, Jesus is once again teaching us a valuable spiritual truth. What is the point of the parable? It seems clear that the people who […]

Generosity and Gratefulness

Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday In The Thirty-First Week Of Ordinary Time   Luke 14: 12-14 Today we find Jesus advising His host to store up  righteousness by being generous not towards the capable but towards the not so capable, who will not be able to return his generosity. Generosity in terms of […]

Jesus on Love and Leadership

Reflection on the Gospel of the Thirty-First Sunday In Ordinary Time   Matthew 23: 1-12 Walk the talk but in humility… Jesus appears to be criticizing the pharisees because they were poor shepherds. They were becoming obstacles between God and his people.  They burdened the faithful with following the laws rather than encouraging them to […]

Jesus on Humility and Hospitality

Reflection on the Gospel of the Saturday In The Thirtieth Week Of Ordinary Time   Luke 14: 1, 7-11 Each parable of Jesus is have a valuable teaching for our day to day life. Everyone love to be in highest place and honour by people In order to achieve the place we do follow two […]

Jesus Heals the Man with Dropsy

Reflection on the Gospel of the Friday In The Thirtieth Week Of Ordinary Time   Luke 14: 1-6 In today’ Gospel, the scribes and Pharisees tried to entrap Jesus with an invitation to a Sabbath dinner. Among the guests there was a man suffering from dropsy.  The condition is a swelling due to an excess […]

The Will of the Father in Heaven

Reflection on the Gospel of the Thursday In The Thirtieth Week Of Ordinary Time All Souls Day John 6: 37-40 The will of the Father is to give Eternal life to all who believe in his Son. Jesus Christ the Eternal Word, who became flesh for our sake is Life itself. And those of us […]

The Beatitudes

Reflection on the Gospel of ALL SAINTS DAY   Matthew 5: 1-12a The Eight Be-Attitudes all flow from the disposition you bring of yourself before God and who you believe God is… One thing you cannot bring before God is presumption about things, and have no desire to introspect/check/re-evaluate things in the light of what God […]