Wednesday 26 October

Wednesday 26 October

Oct 25, 2022 | DAILY BREAD

Wednesday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Gospel - Luke 13:22-30 “Try your best to enter by the narrow door, because, I tell you, many will try to enter and will not succeed”. This is pretty hard, when we read that many will try to enter and will not succeed. So, what is wrong here? They are trying and still not succeeding. There is something basically wrong. Yes, there is something wrong as he say this again, ““We once ate and drank in your company; you taught in our streets” but he will reply, “I do not know where you come from. Away from me, all you wicked men!”. They were together with him and in his company. We are celebrating the Holy Mass and praying. We are in His company. Will we also hear the same thing? Are we doing the same mistake? If then, what is going wrong? What goes wrong is the first sentence in the gospel passage, “Jesus went teaching, making his way to Jerusalem”. He was on his way to Jerusalem. They ate his presence and they listened to him but they did not go with him to Jerusalem. We celebrate the Holy Mass and pray in His presence, but we are not ready to go with Him to Jerusalem to be in the cross.
Tuesday 25 October

Tuesday 25 October

Oct 24, 2022 | DAILY BREAD

Tuesday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Gospel - Luke 13:18-21 Seed and yeast, both contains the vitality inside them to act and to produce the effect. What they need is the favorable conditions, for seed to grow and yeast to leaven. This is what is about the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God has its innate power. From our part what we must do is to create favorable conditions that the Kingdom of God incarnate. But unfortunately, often we are busy taking the role of Kingdom of God ignoring the duty to create favorable conditions. Losing the trust in the efficiency of the Kingdom of God to realize itself and having the trust in the structures to create the Kingdom of God is the problem. The Kingdom of God is working in silence, and it will work in silence. Kingdom of God needs only our docility to the Word of God. Let’s not hinder the growth of the Kingdom of God by our over enthusiasm and faith in structures. The silence of seed in growing under the soil and the yeast in leavening in the flour is not passivity. It’s the active realization of the Kingdom of God in its favorable conditions.  
Monday 24 October

Monday 24 October

Oct 23, 2022 | DAILY BREAD

Monday of week 30 in Ordinary Time Saint Antony Mary Claret, Bishop Gospel - Luke 13:10-17 “‘There are six days’ he said ‘when work is to be done. Come and be healed on one of those days and not on the sabbath.’” The synagogue official interprets the healing of Jesus as a work. This interpretation continues in our life. We also interpret our mission and acts of love and mercy as work. The result is that we have working hours to love and do charity. We started making holidays for doing good things. When the mission is transformed into a duty, the mission loses its life. Mission is not anymore part of you. Mission is just a means to do something good. This is not following Jesus. Jesus did heal the woman on sabbath because his action was part of his love and mission. Before the person who needs his help, there is nothing that stops him. This is the mission. Nothing can stop from doing good when there is life in our mission. Before this gospel let’s analyze how much life is there in my mission? Or do I find excuses for not doing good? Or do I postpone the good I have to do good?
Sunday 23 October

Sunday 23 October

Oct 22, 2022 | DAILY BREAD

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel - Luke 18:9-14 Jesus is saying the parable regarding those who “prided themselves on being virtuous and despised everyone else”. Priding oneself on being virtuous is that we do when we want to feel better than others because we are not really better than others. So, our pious activities give us the false assurance that we are better. The quality of life is not measured by the pious activities we do, but on how much we love. What matters is how much you are humble to love. The more you are humble, the more you can love. The intensity of love is measured by the strength of humility. And the quality of life is measured by the intensity of love. But when the pious activities do not generate love, they force us do despise everyone else. Because it puts you in the center and the rest of the world is worthless. Let us be humble to love and then rest of our activities be around this principle.  
Saturday 22 October

Saturday 22 October

Oct 21, 2022 | DAILY BREAD

Saint John Paul II, Pope Gospel - Luke 13:1-9 “leave it one more year and give me time to dig round it and manure it: it may bear fruit next year” This is what God does. He gives us grace. He gives us freedom. He gives us opportunities. But the choice is ours. The tree has the choice to absorb the manure and produce fruits or just absorb it and not produce fruits. When He sees that His love is not producing fruits in us, He tries to love us more. Grace and opportunities are given without taking out our freedom. The choice is ours. How are we choosing? Are we using the grace and opportunities to produces fruits which will be good for others or are we using it for ourselves? Along with this in the Church we are so much privileged. All these privileges are manures given to us to produce fruits. Again, the choice is ours. Are we using these privileges for our interests or using them for producing fruits of love, and justice. So, let us think: Are we using the grace and opportunities given by Gods love and privileges given by the Church for producing fruits for others or for ourselves?