Saturday, November 15, 2025 Wis 18:14-16, 19:6-9; Lk 18:1-8 Today’s Gospel highlights the depravity of the human soul when it loses touch with God. The Gospel text bears the heading ‘The Parable of the Persistent Widow.’ But in the former translations, it had the title ‘The Parable of the Unjust Judge.’ I believe this is […]
Thursday, November 13, 2025 Wis 7:22b-8:1; Lk 17:20-25 Today’s Gospel highlights the nature of God’s Kingdom. When Jesus talks about the arrival of God’s Kingdom, he is, in fact, offering correctives to dispel the dominant misconceptions about it. 1. Jesus cautions about externalizing the Kingdom. In other words, the Kingdom of God is not a
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 Wis 6:1-11; Lk 17:11-19 Today’s Gospel highlights the profound ingratitude of those who were profoundly loved by Jesus. In the account of the healing of ten lepers, we find that while the gratitude of the Samaritan offers consolation to Jesus, the ingratitude of the nine others is deeply disappointing to him.
