Lk 12: 54-59: People knew to read the signs of
nature. So the signs which are seen around Jesus are enough for the sincere
ones to understand that now is the time announced by the prophets to be
converted and Israel must acknowledge it savior. The urgency of conversion for
Jesus must be done before it is too late with a reconciliation between brothers
and sisters because we are in our way to God’s judgment so that we can take
advantage of the right situation we are then, if we are in the above said
positions
Friday, 31 August 2018
Thursday, 30 August 2018
30. Lk. 17: 20-37
Lk. 17: 20-37: The final coming of the kingdom
of heaven is something men can never calculate or make research upon. Jesus
says that in one sense the kingdom has already come. It is at work in people who
have received the Good News of Jesus. False prophets will bring confusion in
the minds of some people. The end of the world comes suddenly for which the
believers are told to prepare and wait
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
29. Mk 10: 35-45
Mk 10: 35-45: The disciples were not a company
of saints. They were ordinary men set out by Jesus to change the world. They
were ambitious having failed to understand Jesus, his mission and the purpose
of his coming. In them we find the amazing confidence and the amazing loyalty
in Jesus. Jesus raised these ordinary men to change the world as apostles and
his ambassadors of the Divine plan – the will of God to which Jesus submitted
himself to
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
28. Lk 9: 23-27
Lk 9: 23-27: If Peter’s
profession of Jesus is the truth but not the whole truth. To grasp the full
meaning of Jesus’ definition of his identity, it is to have vast consequences
for the lives of his disciples. We cannot take Christ without the cross; it
will lead one to delusion. Nor can we take the cross without Christ, this leads
to despair.
Monday, 27 August 2018
27. Lk 12: 35-40
Lk
12: 35-40: The message of preparedness is presented in a parabolic language
here. The disciples are asked to wide awake to God’s gift and to the demands of
God’s kingdom. One should be open to truth. It is not enough just not to avoid
evil but to promote goodness
Sunday, 26 August 2018
26. Lk. 18: 35-43
Lk. 18: 35-43:
The cure of the blind man speaks not only of restoration of the physical sight
but the gradual emergence of spiritual sight among the disciples. While the
disciples saw what is happening in the outside world and so told the blind man
to keep quiet, the blind man has an inner focused need to be rectified i.e. to
regain sight. So he shouts for Jesus!
Saturday, 25 August 2018
25. Mk. 2: 13-17
Mk.
2: 13-17: Jesus dines with tax collectors. The association with public sinners
of which Levi the tax collector included could make one ritually unclean in
these time. Jesus cracks open the status quo as he draws people into the
kingdom by cleaning, healing them. Now the power to forgive which moves among
us is the power of Jesus. He is the Messiah-our abiding agent of reconciliation
and the source of liturgical power.
Friday, 24 August 2018
24. Lk 6: 12-19
Lk 6: 12-19: The 12 disciples including St.
Bartholomew were called by Jesus to be with him as friends and messengers. They
were called from the 72 disciples to become apostles to be sent out as
ambassadors of Christ. They were very
ordinary men with strange mixture –hot tempered, zealots, tax collectors,
fisherman with their own emotional attitudes. All of them found themselves
peaceful co-existence in the company of Jesus.
Thursday, 23 August 2018
23. Mt 13: 10-17
Mt 13: 10-17: Jesus makes every parable a
challenge. Every parable makes one to decide after understanding his or her
situation in life in the context of the parable told. Confronted by God’s love
erupting into our life, we are forced to decide. We either accept God’s love or
reject it. Many Jews chose the latter.
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
22. Mk 5: 1-13
Mk
5: 1-13: A man, who was
possessed with evil spirits, was cured by Jesus. The demon
enjoyed a routine way of life in the man who was living among the tombs of the
dead. Jesus comes there to disturb that routine. Life went peacefully on till
there arrived ‘this disturbing’ Jesus. They complained to Jesus; they hated him.
More people hate Jesus because he disturbs them of their wrong doings. They
don’t accept Jesus by saying “Go away and let us be in peace.” Those who come
out from their routine life serve the church but Jesus says
they must start from their home.
Tuesday, 21 August 2018
21. Lk. 14: 1-6
Lk. 14: 1-6:
The Jews were corrupted by the
interpretation and practice of the Sabbath laws. To them comes Jesus active. He
revives them by giving new meaning for the Sabbath laws. He proves that
‘Sabbath is for the good of man and not man for the Sabbath’(Mk 2: 27).
Sunday, 19 August 2018
19.. Lk 18: 1-8
Lk 18: 1-8: If the persistent plea of a
helpless widow gets through to an unjust, how much more effective will it be
with God? Jesus the son of God will surely come however long – delayed his
coming may seem towards the groaning under persecution of Christians living in
difficult times. So the Christian should never cease praying and pleading for
redemptive justice inspired by faith in Jesus.
Friday, 17 August 2018
17. Jn 15: 18-25
Jn
15: 18-25: If love is the essential nature of
the disciple of Christ, hatred is of the world and it’s ruler the Satan. When a
person begins to live a more responsible and committed life he or she meets
with opposition and hatred from the other. This is the beginning of persecution
of the Christians or Christ’s followers who is committed to Christ and his
word. Jesus makes his disciples of this incoming persecution and must be
prepared to suffer like that he suffered in this Gospel passage.
Thursday, 16 August 2018
16. Mt 12: 46-50
Mt 12: 46-50: Passage through the red
sea inaugurated the beginning of the people of God. Our baptism is also the
beginning of a process of our maturing in the Lord. The truly significant bonds
that join people are not biological but spiritual: the shared experiences of
school, seminary, political campaigns, joy, sorrow and deliverance. Jesus tells
us that those who listen to and keep his word are his brothers and sisters in a
new family that knit together by the Holy Spirit. We all have experienced
deliverance through baptism.
Wednesday, 15 August 2018
15. Jn 2: 1-12
Jn
2: 1-12: Independence or Liberty is the
celebration of the spirit. If the spirit cannot celebrate due to a physical
bondage or the absence of a physical need, how can there be true independence?
Bl.V. Mary did the same. She helped the host family at Cana to have good wine
in abundance by a miracle by her son Jesus. She freed the spirits of the people
there. She gave importance to the spirit than her physic. So she also indicated
to the true freedom by her Assumption to heaven or her son showed humanity the
true freedom by his mother’s assumption.
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
14. Mt. 9: 18-26
Mt. 9: 18-26: The ruler of the
synagogue and the woman with hemorrhage came to Jesus with insufficient faith.
The former came out of desperation and the latter with a superstition. Both
were granted the favours they asked for or desired in their hearts. Jesus makes
the event holy and memorable and inadequacy of our faith is made wholly.
Monday, 13 August 2018
13. Lk 6: 43-45
Lk
6: 43-45: A man cannot be judged in any other way than by his deeds. Teaching
and preaching are both ‘truth through personality’. Fine words will never take
the place of fine deeds. The modern secular movements can never be defeated by
mere words, writing and so on than proving that Christianity produce better man
and woman.
Sunday, 12 August 2018
12. Lk. 17: 11-19
Lk. 17: 11-19: 10 lepers were
healed but only one who came back to
thank God, was told “ your faith has saved you” while the 9 Jews who were
healed responded to the legal requirements, the latter was the one who happened
to be a non-Jew responded straight from his heart. Among the many people asking
God for healing and favours, how many will come to that saving faith which is a
new relationship to God through Jesus?
Saturday, 11 August 2018
11. Mk. 13: 3-13
Mk. 13: 3-13:
people, confused are easily fooled by propaganda and ideologies. Fear makes
them blind and they persecute those who do not share their fanaticism. That is
why they hate the true believers. Jesus asks his followers to bear witness to
him as the only savior and proclaim what the Gospel demands of the individual
and of society.
Friday, 10 August 2018
10. Mt. 10: 16-25
Mt. 10: 16-25: Jesus warned his
disciples that the days to come they might well find the state, the church and
family conjoined against them. Christianity preaches a view of man which no
totalitarian state can accept. Christianity aims to obliterate certain trades,
and professions and way of making money- it still does – and church can never
closes her eyes towards the malpractices of the state, church and family
members. So is a Christian liable for
persecution.
Thursday, 9 August 2018
9. Mk 10: 35-45
Mk 10: 35-45: The disciples were not a
company of saints. They were ordinary men set out by Jesus to change the world.
They were ambitious having failed to understand Jesus, his mission and the
purpose of his coming. In them we find the amazing confidence and the amazing
loyalty in Jesus. Jesus raised these ordinary men to change the world as
apostles and his ambassadors of the Divine plan – the will of God to which
Jesus submitted himself to.
Wednesday, 8 August 2018
8. Mt. 7: 15-20
Mt. 7: 15-20: Teaching people in a
brilliant way, working miracles are gifts though good for the community does
not guarantee that one is pleasing to God. True faith activated by love is the
real key for the kingdom of heaven. To explain this message Jesus uses the
parable of grapes and its fruits. The true disciples are those who produce
fruits of love.
Tuesday, 7 August 2018
7. Jn. 4: 27-38
Jn. 4: 27-38: The desire to tell others
of the Samaritan women’s discovery about Jesus killed in her the feeling of
shame –a shame of being an outcast and now being cured by Jesus her intimate
sinful status, made her to discover Jesus as the Messiah and she ran to tell
her neighbors and the people of her village whom she was avoiding till now.
Once she is cured from her inner self, she is free to share Jesus to them. She
understood to do the will of God and for her that was the only way to
happiness.
Monday, 6 August 2018
6. Mt. 17: 1-9
Mt. 17: 1-9: Mountain has been the
traditional place of divine revelations from Old Testament times. Peter
representing us answered as to who Jesus was and now it is the Father who gives
us the answer. Jesus is the Beloved Son; the Eternal Love of the Father can
only be satisfied by the Son who shares as his own Divinity. Jesus is the
chosen one, the savior announced by the prophets of old. He ‘makes man fully
manifest to himself and brings to light his exalted vocation’ (CCC 1701)
Sunday, 5 August 2018
5. Lk. 16: 19-31
Lk. 16: 19-31:
The wall the rich man makes willingly in this life becomes after his death, an
abyss which no one will be able to bridge. The one who accepts this separation
will find himself on the other side forever. So Jesus asks us to work with a
view to remove the abyss which separates them in this life by this parable.
Saturday, 4 August 2018
4. Mt. 9: 35- 10: 1
Mt. 9: 35- 10: 1:
What we learn through our struggles with darkness can help others to see light.
It can be our way of bringing in the harvest. We all struggle to find God in
our life. If we pursue in the ‘dark night of the soul’ or ‘spiritual aridity’
to the conclusion, we can emerge from them with deeper and clearer sight.
Friday, 3 August 2018
3. Mt. 22: 34-40
Mt. 22: 34-40: The striking point
in today’s Gospel is not that Jesus commanded to love our God and our neighbor
but that he joined them as two sides of the same coin. It is not artificially
connected. If a person really loves his or her neighbor, such a person loves
God at the same instant
Thursday, 2 August 2018
2. Lk. 12: 49-53
Lk. 12: 49-53:
The zeal that Jesus enkindle in one, will spotlight sin and the one turns away
from it will gradually create reaction and generate conflict and strife in the
other who are servants of sin. It is the kind of reactive strife that one is
faced with and that in turn create division - people for Christ and against
him.
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
1. Mt. 9: 35 - 10: 1
Mt. 9: 35 - 10: 1: As
Christians, we are invited to heal and cure the world, its many sicknesses,
physical, psychological, social and ecological through our effective concern
for our wounded planet. This requires a personal transformation which
ultimately the gift of God’s spirit.
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