September 20, 2015
Sunday, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Reading:
Wis 2:12, 17-20
2nd Reading: Jas 3:16-4:3
Gospel: Mk 9:30-37
Jesus and his disciples made their way through Galilee; but Jesus did not want people to know where he was because he was teaching his disciples. And he told them, “The Son of Man will be delivered into human hands. They will kill him, but three days after he has been killed, he will rise.” The disciples, however, did not understand these words and they were afraid to ask him what he meant.
They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, Jesus asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” But they did not answer because they had been arguing about who was the greatest.
Then he sat down, called the Twelve and said to them, “If someone wants to be first, let him be last of all and servant of all.” Then he took a little child, placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it he said to them, “Whoever welcomes a child such as this in my name, welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me, welcomes not me but the One who sent me.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
Who is a child that we should accommodate so that heaven may accommodate us too? Let us focus on five groups of people with the characteristics of a child. They are arranged here to form the acronym “child” for better recall, namely, those who “contribute nothing significant” directly to society, those who are “helpless”, “ignorant”, “least” and “dependent”.
Many people look upon the poor as contributing very little, if at all, to society. Believe it or not, someone even proposed that the poor should not be allowed to vote at elections. That is how most of us look at the poor. We look at them as incapable of contributing something significant to society.
The categories of the helpless, ignorant, least, and dependent are not exclusive to the financially poor. There are many from the higher echelons of society who are helpless spiritually, and who are ignorant because they refused to go to school in their younger days in exchange for a life of fun and adventure.
Many from the rich are also considered least because their wealth comes from questionable sources.
Many of them are also emotionally dependent.
There is always a “child” to welcome at any level of society. Thus, we will never run out of opportunities to welcome Christ in our lives. By welcoming the financially poor and the spiritually marginalized, we welcome Christ. By welcoming Christ, we welcome the Father who sent him. — Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website: www.frdan.org.
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