Sep 20, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
Saint Matthew, Apostle, Evangelist
Gospel – Matthew 9:9-13
As Jesus was walking on, he saw a man named Matthew sitting by the customs house, and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and followed him. The love of God takes Mathew out of his place to new place. From the customs house to the path of Jesus. We often see the limits of the person and stop there. But God sees the limits of the person but don’t stop there. God’s love goes precisely where we are and takes us out it. No limits where the love of God cannot reach. Matthew is responding well. He got up and followed Jesus. Our response to God’s love changes our course of life. Matthew is not any more collecting taxes to someone else. Matthew is collecting graces of God’s love for himself and those around him. Matthew is not stuck up, but he is following Jesus. He is liberated. Respond to God’s love and change the course of your life.
Sep 19, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions, Martyrs
Tuesday of week 25 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 8:19-21
“…hear the word of God and put it into practice”. It is very easy to hear the Word of God. We all do. But to hear the Word and put it into practice is difficult. To hear and to put it into practice you need love. To just hear, you don’t need a relationship. But to hear and to put it into practice you need a relationship with the person who talks. That’s the difference. We are ready to hear but not ready to practice. We hear and we practice what we want. This will not make us brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ. To have a real relationship with Jesus, we must listen and then we must practice what we have heard from him. Today’s Gospel is asking us: are you listening and putting into practice what you heard? Or are you listening and putting into practice what you want by modifying what you heard? Modifying the Word of God to satisfy my plans and desires destroys everything in our relationship with Jesus.
Sep 18, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
Monday of week 25 in Ordinary Time
Saint Januarius, Bishop, Martyr
Gospel – Luke 8:16-18
“for anyone who has will be given more; from anyone who has not, even what he thinks he has will be taken away”. This is because of our choice: if we are walking towards light you will have more light. But if you are walking away from light even the light we have will be gone. When we have faith in the plan of God about our life we will see more and more His design in all that’s happening in our life. Whereas if don’t have faith in God’s love, slowly slowly we will see more and more darkness everywhere. All depends on your choice: you want to walk towards light or away from light?
Sep 17, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 16:1-13
Dishonest steward put us forward a challenge: are you ready to do what is necessary to be the children of light? Are you ready to be astute to accept extra challenges to be the children of light?
The question here is: are you ready to love more to help the other? Often, we are happy with the minimum and we don’t think out of the box to help the other. We have our structures and systems. We have our framework through which we want to do our service. Anything outside of that framework we don’t want to do because that will give me extra challenges. The dishonest steward was ready to take extra challenges to save his position. He is ready to do anything to save himself because for him he himself is the important one in his life. We are often not ready to accept extra challenges to love the other in need because they are not important. We become prisoners of our system because for us our system is more important than the poor and the needy. Make the needy and the poor the priority of your life to be the children of light.
Sep 16, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop, Doctor
Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin, Doctor
Gospel – Luke 8:4-15
The gospel speaks about the parable of the Sower. Don’t be afraid to sow. We have lots of fears to sow. We have lots of excuses not to sow. Because first of all, we don’t recognize the power of what we are sowing. Jesus says, “the seed is the word of God”. So, if you have the Word of God, why are you afraid of sowing? Don’t make judgements about where you are sowing. Just sow the Word of God. But make sure that it is the Word of God that you are sowing and not your word. Often, we have fears because we don’t have enough faith in the power of the Word of God. Believe in the Word of God and be a Sower. Be a Sower of the Word of God to all you meet today. May be even with a smile…
