Thursday,
October 27, 2016
30th Week
in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: Eph 6: 10-20
Gospel: Luke 13:31-35
Some Pharisees came to Jesus and gave him this warning, “Leave this place and go on your way, for Herod wants to kill you.” Jesus said to them, “Go and give that fox my answer: ‘I drive out demons and heal today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my course!’ Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and for a little longer, for it would not be fitting for a prophet to be killed outside Jerusalem.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you slay the prophets and stone your apostles! How often have I tried to bring together your children, as a bird gathers her young under her wings, but you refused! From now on you will be left with your temple and you will no longer see me until the time when you will say: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
At a seminar on weather forecasting the speaker talked about the necessity of typhoons. Hello, aren’t typhoons absolutely destructive? They are not. The speaker said they are necessary to water the earth. Without typhoons we’d be suffering draught all year round. Realities as apparently destructive as typhoons can still bring something good to society.
Absolute evil cannot exist otherwise evil would be at par with God. There is even something good in Satan in that he can serve as the whetstone against which God’s people can sharpen their perseverance in faith. Bad people can still be of use to society. Today’s Gospel passage is a good case in point. Certain Pharisees, in a rare show of extraordinary concern for Jesus, warned him of Herod’s plot to kill him. We find this unusual because the Pharisees are portrayed in the gospels as always on the lookout for opportunities either to trap or harm Jesus physically. Who would think a group loyal to Jesus could come from their ranks?
Jesus too must have seen something positive in Jerusalem despite the fact that it has been lukewarm to his love. Thus despite threats to his life he did not abandon it. This is what enduring love is all about. The same love is available to us. We feel this in the ministry of the Church, in the charitable deeds of lay people, in the pastoral care of non-government institutions and in the favorable timing of events. Are we reciprocating God for these? Critics rush to answer in the negative. Yet God has a different evaluation of us. He must be seeing something good in us, which explains why he hasn’t abandoned us. Shouldn’t this divine optimism move us to conversion? – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM, MMExM, MAPM, REB. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com.
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