Tuesday, August 09, 2016 19th Week in Ordinary Time 1st Reading: Ez 2: 8 – 3: 4 Gospel: Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14
The disciples came to Jesus and asked him, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Then Jesus called a little child, set the child in the midst of the disciples, and said, “I assure you that unless you change and become like little children, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever becomes lowly like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and whoever receives such a child in my name receives me. “See that you do not despise any of these little ones, for I tell you: their angels in heaven continually see the face of my heavenly Father.
“What do you think of this? If someone has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hillside, and go to look for the stray one? And I tell you: when he finally finds it, he is more pleased about it than about the ninety-nine that did not get lost. It is the same with your Father in heaven: there they don’t want even one of these little ones to be lost.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
Teacher asks pupils who among them would like to go to heaven. Everyone but Pedro raises hand. “Aren’t you interested to go to heaven?” the teacher asks. Pedro replies: “I’d love to, but Mama told me to come home early today”.
If we stretch the moral of the story, we arrive at a reflection on the impact of parental influence on the children’s salvation. Some parents unknowingly or knowingly hinder the salvation of their own children. More realistic than the fantastic story of Pedro is the story of the children of Cordova, Cebu, who years ago were dragged into the online pornography business of their own parents. It was learned that the family dog would even come in as alternative sex partner of the children at the prodding of pervert online customers.
Is it not enough that the family is becoming hardly accessible to children? Must it also become a danger zone to the few who make it at birth? The family can be the most dangerous place for children. The danger can climb to the womb as many women insist that they have the absolute right to decide whom to accommodate in their womb and when.
In light of the heart-rending saga of children in the hands of humanity, the Church has established that there is no such thing as “limbo” where aborted children end up for all eternity. If human beings have the heart to reject innocent children, God has all the heart to accommodate them. In fact Jesus declared without mincing words that heaven belongs to them. –(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM, MMExM, MAPM, REB. Email:[email protected].
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