Tuesday, November 4, 2024 Phil 2:5-11; Lk 14:15-24 Today’s Gospel invites us to engage in a role-play between Jesus and the nameless speaker (probably a Pharisee himself!) as the hosts. The role-play exercise will help us understand the deeper meaning of today’s Gospel better. The nameless speaker says to Jesus, ‘Blessed is the one who […]
Monday, November 4, 2024 Phil 2:1-4; Lk 14:12-14 Today’s Gospel highlights that the guest’s inability to repay should be the reason for Christian hospitality. When it is usual for anyone to befriend those from the upper rungs of the social ladder, Jesus invites us to embrace those lower-rung occupants. Human life is built on expectations.
Sunday, November 3, 2024 Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Dt 6: 2-6; Heb 7:23-28; Mk 12:28-34 The thirty-first Sunday invites us to discover ‘love’ as the underlying principle of God’s covenantal relationship with Israelites and Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. The great commandment that highlights the love of God and the love of neighbor is
