Matthew 10:37-42; 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Let us be honest, it’s not easy to follow Jesus, but it’s worth it. That sums up the message Jesus is trying to communicate to us in today’s Gospel passage – and it’s a message that we constantly need to be reminded of, especially when age and illness…
Day: July 2, 2017
Coming in Second – Fr Harold Parilla
Matthew 10:37-42, 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time If we read the Gospel more closely, we will certainly find it intriguing, if not outright disturbing. Jesus says that our parents and our children should only come second in our hierarchy of loves. They are secondary; God comes first. If parents and children come first, we become…
What if God were one of us – Mark Aloysius, SJ
Matthew 10:37-42, 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time I. There was once a monastery which was dying as it only had five monks left. Despairing over the eventual demise of his monastery, the Abbot went to see a wise Rabbi who lived nearby for advice. The Rabbi welcomed the Abbot in his little hut. The two…
Thaw – Arnel Aquino, SJ
Matthew 10:37-42, 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time You’ve heard of parents who would love for a son or daughter to enter the priesthood or to be a nun. My parents were like that. Funny how you remember some things like they happened only yesterday, but it was one rainy night when Dad and I sat…
One Lost Sheep 