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Reflection: Luke 7:1-10 God’s loving care and salvation is not reserved to any particular religion or group alone. The Jews always considered themselves to be chosen people of God and regarded outsiders as pagans and unclean. Their scrupulous observation of purification rituals were mostly for purifying themselves from articles or places that were touched by […]
Reflection: Mark 8:27-35 In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus is presented as always on the move and his disciples walk behind him. They always paid much attention to what people said about him. Several times in the Gospel, we read that the crowds and the disciples have put the question: “Who is this?” With today’s […]
Reflection: Luke 6:43-49 In our final reading from Luke’s version of the Sermon on the Plain, Jesus speaks of the qualities of a genuine disciple. Jesus challenges his disciples to live their lives worthy of the name of Christ. Pope Francis, during his special audience with the members of the Claretian Missionaries after their General […]
Reflection: Luke 6: 39-42 The liturgy of the Word in the past days has led us to meditate on basic Christian attitudes: to be generous in giving, to serve, to forgive, to be merciful. Today the Church calls our attention on brotherly correction. When a brother, a sister from the community makes a mistake, how […]
Reflection: Luke 6: 27-38 The authors of the gospels have tried to present Jesus as the new Moses – the new law-giver- the Messiah. The Ten Commandments formed the basis of the Jewish faith which offered them guidelines for their religious as well as social life. In the New Testament, Jesus gives a new guideline […]
Reflection: Matthew 1: 1-16; 18-23 Today the universal Church honours the Blessed Virgin Mary as we joyfully celebrate her nativity. The Church celebrates the story of God accompanying us, the humanity, the crown of his creation and chooses one of us to be the Mother of God the Son. Today’s gospel passage regarding Jesus’ […]
Reflection: Lk 6:12-19 Today’s Gospel speaks of Jesus choosing his apostles after a night of prayer on the mountain. There are two important points implied in this narrative. There were a group of disciples who accompanied Jesus on to the mountain for prayer. They have spent the night together on the mountain in prayer. Jesus […]
Reflection: Luke 6:6-11 We have already seen the meaning of the Sabbath as a day of great joy, intended to be spent in prayer, listening to the Word of God and sharing meals together – in short, a time spent with the Lord. But, over many years of religious practices, the rabbis interpreted the scriptures […]
Reflection: Mark 7:31-37 Prophet Jeremiah calls Israel a “stupid and senseless people, who have eyes and do not see, who have ears and do not hear” (Jer 5:21)! Deafness, in the Bible, is the image of the rejection of God’s word. It shows the condition of a person seduced by misleading voices. It is […]
Reflection: Luke 6: 1-5 In Jesus’ time the feast of the Sabbath began on Friday evening at sunset. At that hour, in every village, a man climbed on the roof of the house and sounded the horn three times. At the first call, all the activities of the fields were suspended. All the household works […]