The Chosen :: Season2 Episode 2: I Saw You
The episode opens with Nathaniel losing his job and later he sits under a fig tree to pray. In his prayer he pours out his heart and tells God that his work was an offering to Him, he requests God to answer his prayer and give the reason as to why he lost his job, […]
The Chosen :: Season2 Episode 1: Thunder
The episode opens with the Apostle John interacting with the other disciples and Mary to record their memories of Jesus. When you look back, he met each one of them when they were seeking God, when they were miserable and seeking the Lord for help in their troubled lives, when they had given up! It […]
The Chosen :: Season1 Episode 8: Invitations
The episode begins with the scene of Jacob and his sons searching digging for water and building wells. Later we will this scene being linked to Jesus. I loved the depiction of the scene of a dinner party that Jesus attends, at the home of one of his disciples house and the mention of Holy […]
The Chosen :: Season1 Episode 7: Invitations
This episode starts with a scene from the Old Testament Moses is making a bronze serpent. Joshua enters and questions this idol making. Moses stresses on Obedience to God’s Instructions because walking with Yahweh is not an act of reason but an act of faith. When we read the Bible, we come across many invitations […]
Jesus, Peter and the Temple Tax
Reflection on the Gospel of the Monday Of The Nineteenth Week In Ordinary Time Matthew 17:22-27 This was not the first time Jesus is telling his disciples of his impending death. This time he is more specific and making them aware that someone is going to hand him over into the hands of men to […]
The Chosen :: Season1 Episode 6: Indescribable Compassion
By the title of this episode we can guess that this episode is filled with miracles of Jesus. The two miracles presented are healing of the leper and the paralytic man. The depiction of the scene of the healing of the leper, is shown in a very realistic way. However, I presume the lepers were […]
The Chosen :: Season1 Episode 5: The Wedding Gift
The episode begins with Joseph and Mary finding Jesus in the Temple when he was but a child and then goes on to tell us the story of the Wedding Feast at Cana. This Episode deals with only the main elements of the Gospel Narrative, the rest of this episode is filled with common customs […]
Jesus, The Father and The Sheep
Reflection on the Gospel of the Fourth Sunday of Easter John 10:27-30 Jesus states that He is the Good Shepherd who cares for His sheep. He seeks, nurtures, guides and protects His sheep. His sheep have an intimate relationship with Him such that they can listen, discern, accept and act according to the Will of […]
The Chosen :: Season1 Episode 4: The Rock On Which It Is Built
This episode shows us the calls of Peter and Andrew sons of Jonah, and James and John sons of Zebedee. . The episode shows us that James and John and Peter and Andrew knew each other and stayed in a familiar community, the hardships faced by Simon and his family, and how his mother-in-law lands […]
The Chosen :: Season1 Episode 3: Jesus Loves The Little Children
Again like in the previous episode, there is no specific Gospel Passage to confirm the events shown in this episode, however there are many references that tell us that Jesus liked children. This entire episode is dedicated to children and Jesus may come out as boring but serves in driving home some truths which we […]