31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
First reading – Malachi 1:14-2:2,8-10
“Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us? Why, then, do we break faith with one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?” The words of the Prophet Malachi must be awaking in us the sense of being sons and daughters of God and treating each other as sons and daughters of the same God. Whenever we thing of excluding a person, the first thought that should come to our mind is this: This person is also a son or daughter of the same Father. Often we forget that and we make differences and exclude others because of various reasons. Whatever the differences are, he or she is the son or daughter of the same Father. We have no reason to exclude that person for a reason. The main truth remains. We are all sons and daughters of the same Father. We all have the same creator. Whether it’s a thought or it’s an act, against this truth, we must avoid. Let’s reflect: Am I excluding anyone for any reason ignoring the truth that we are all sons and daughters of the same Father?
Sunday 5 November
