REFLECTIONS TODAY LUKE 12:13-21 Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Gospel • Matthew 14:1-12 1 Herod the Tetrarch (Herod Antipas) has inherited one-fourth of the kingdom of his father, Herod the Great. He is in-charge of the region of Galilee. He hears so much about Jesus in his territory. He mistakenly believes that Jesus is John the Baptist...
REFLECTIONS TODAY There is a common opinion that Mary fares better than Martha, for we are more familiar with the story about Martha who busies herself with menial jobs, while Mary chooses to stay with Jesus to listen to his words, when he visits them at Bethany. Jesus himself affirms Mary. But in...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Commentators and preachers seldom give importance to this phrase, “when it is full...” which is in the second verse (v 48). They are more inclined to develop the first verse which is about the net catching all kinds of fish to explain the mystery of the Kingdom of heaven. ...
REFLECTIONS TODAY To explain the nature of the Kingdom of heaven, Jesus makes stories which we, “modern” people, may find senseless and hard to accept. Imagine the two parables about selling all that you have in order to have money to buy the treasure discovered in the field or to possess an...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Jesus talks to his disciples, acknowledging how lucky they are because they have seen and heard what the ancient prophets and holy people longed to see and hear, but they did not. It is true. Blessed are their eyes and their ears. The prophets and the righteous of old did not have...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Parents usually want their children to have the best in life, even to a fault. The mother of James and John is no different. So she asks Jesus to make them sit, one at his right and the other at his left when his Kingdom comes. Does she and her sons know what they are asking for?...
REFLECTIONS TODAY LUKE 11:1-13 Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples.” He said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come. Give us each day...
REFLECTIONS TODAY In the Kingdom of heaven, God allows the evil people to coexist with the good ones. In the parable of the weeds among the wheat, the servants wish to remove the weeds from the field because they are not sown by the landowner, but by an enemy. The landowner objects, stressing that...
REFLECTIONS TODAY The two angels ask Mary of Magdala why she is crying. She is supposed to be rejoicing, for Jesus is risen from the dead. Peter and the other disciple have gone home after verifying her report. The latter disciple makes an act of faith upon seeing the empty tomb. But Mary of...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Jesus has just begun to tell a series of parables to his listeners. But right after the first one, the parable of the Sower, the disciples ask why Jesus speaks in parables. Why not use plain language so that they and other people will understand better? Jesus explains that it is...
REFLECTIONS TODAY As Jesus goes out of the house and sits down by the sea, large crowds gather around him. Sitting on a boat now, Jesus narrates the parable of the Sower, teaching the importance of listening to the Word of God. Our bodily instrument in listening is our ears. We will never learn...
