The Law and the Prophets

Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Tenth Week Of Ordinary Time   Matthew 5: 17-19 We are Christians today because of the Scripture and Tradition passed on to us about God’s passionate love, our failure to respond to His love due to sin and Jesus’s passion and resurrection as an assurance of […]

The Law and the Prophets

  Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Third Week Of Lent   Matthew 5: 17-19 “I have come not to abolish the law but to fulfill it“. All the Kaw and prophecies of the Old Testament point to Jesus. The Hebrew word for Law is ‘Halakhah’ which means to go, to walk […]

The Law and the Prophets

Reflection on the Gospel of the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time   Matthew 5: 17-37 In today’s Gospel we are called to explore beyond the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees through expanding the understanding of the law. It’s a plan to live in the wisdom of God by going beyond following the law to […]

The Law and the Prophets

Reflection on the Gospel of the Wednesday In The Third Week In Lent Matthew 5:17-19 God had given his Law (Ten Commandments) for the benefit of His People. The People looked at it literally and missed the Holiness God desired to convey to His people. The Law became all the legal points that the people […]

The Law and the Prophets

Matthew 5:17-19   The Old Testament Law and prophecies are fulfilled in and through Jesus, because the role of the Old Testament was to slowly reveal Christ. So the Ten Commandments (Law) are not wrong, but indicators to fulfilment in Jesus who come to complete them, not change them. This is the heart of Jesus […]

The Law and the Prophets

Matthew 5:17-19 Whatever the prophets of the Old Testament foretold, we see getting fulfilled in Jesus. Yahweh had given the Law to the people of Israel at Sinai, as part of the package of freedom, he bestowed on them. It was meant to keep them free in and through a loving relationship with God himself, […]