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Reflection: Luke 5: 33-39 The subject of food is often the subject of litigation. The Jewish leaders accused Jesus of being an eater and a drinker. He was accused of eating and drinking with tax collectors and public sinners. Sharing a table for meal was a sign of acquaintance and friendship. In today’s Gospel, they […]
Reflection: Luke 5:1-11 The episode of the call of the first three apostles takes place on the shore of the Lake of Gennesaret. Jesus goes into the boat of Peter, asks him to put out a little off the ground, sits down and begins to teach the people. The intension of the evangelist by creating […]
Reflection: Luke 4: 38-44 We continue to read from the account of Evangelist Luke about Jesus spending a Sabbath day in Capernaum. After driving out an ugly demon from a person in the Synagogue and refusing even to have any dialogue with the evil powers, Jesus moves to the house of Peter. Fr. Armellini would […]
REFLECTION: Luke 4:31-37 By the time Luke wrote his Gospel, the concern of Luke’s community was no longer to convert Israel but to live faithfully as disciples of Jesus in a Roman world that was largely hostile to them. From his narration of the incident at Nazareth where Jesus was rejected by his own people, […]
Reflection: Luke 4:16-30 Luke was writing for a community of Gentile converts. The arguments among the various groups of Judaism mattered little to them. Pharisees were not actual opponents, merely figures from a distant past. Luke presents Jesus beginning his Mission from his home turf – to people whom he knew and they were amazed […]
Reflection: Mark 7:1-8; 14-15; 21-23 The evangelist Mark, who writes for an audience in Rome that did not know the customs of the Jews, now feels the need to explain to his readers this obsession of the Jews with the ritual purifications. The Jews paid great attention to the meticulous execution of the ritual washings, […]
Reflection: Matthew 25: 14-30 Pope Francis compares this parable with the life of every individual. He says, this parable has a beginning, a middle and an end, which shed light on the beginning, the middle and the end of our lives. The beginning. Everything begins with a great good. The master does not keep his […]
Reflection: Matthew 25:1-13 The parable of the ten virgins is a bit confusing: the foolish virgins could have joined the wedding with the little oil they still have! At midnight, when the markets are closed, where would they buy the oil from? The wise virgins are so selfish that they refuse to share the oil […]
Reflection: Matthew 24:42-51 The Gospel today speaks about the coming of the Lord at the end of time and exhorts us to be watchful, to watch. In the early Church, many believed that the end of this world was close at hand and that Jesus would return soon. Today, many people continue to believe that […]
Reflection: Matthew 23:27-32 If we love our parents and the elderly, we shall take care of them, show them affection and care when they are alive. If you love your parents, take care of them when they are alive We come today to the last two of the seven ‘Woes’ which Jesus accuses against the […]