Friday, September 22, 2017
24th Week in
Ordinary Time
1st Reading: 1 Tim 6:2-12
Gospel: Luke 8:1-3
Jesus walked through towns and countryside, preaching and giving the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve followed him, and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and diseases: Mary called Magdalene, who had been freed of seven demons; Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward; Suzanna and others who provided for them out of their own funds.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
Charles finds out he is going to inherit a fortune should his sickly father die. He goes to a single’s bar to look for a woman he could share the treasure with. There he spots the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. “I may look just like an ordinary man,” Charles says to her, “but in just a week or two, my father will die, and I’ll inherit 20 million dollars from him.” The woman goes home with Charles that evening. The following day she becomes Charles’ stepmother.
Stories like this do not paint a good picture of women. But these are just stories. In reality we have high regard for women. It was not so in Jesus’ time. It must have been a real scandal to society for women to follow Jesus closely. In those days no decent teacher mingled in public with women because women were frowned upon as second-class citizens. But Jesus swam against the tide by extending to them great respect. He even allowed them to minister to the needs of his group.
Today women are already well respected. They are even getting more respect than men get. There had been great women in the past. MOLLY BROWN was born Margaret Tobin in 1867 at Denkler Alley and Butler St. in Hannibal, Missouri, U.S.A. As a young girl, Molly learned to steer a boat on the Mississippi River and for a while, worked as a waitress at the Park Hotel. In 1890, her husband struck it rich in the mines of Leadville. They bought a 16-room house on Pennsylvania St., which is now a museum. During the sinking of the Titanic on April 14, 1912, Molly Brown was reputed to have rowed for seven and a half hours and delivered her passengers to safety on Lifeboat no. 6. Being the only woman to have done so, she earned the nickname “unsinkable” and is well remembered for this feat.
History has more to offer. We have the heroic life stories of Mother Teresa of Kolkata, Joan of Arc, Helen Keller, Princess Diana and many others. Foremost is the story of the Blessed Virgin Mary who even at the time when the struggle for women’s case was yet unheard of already raised the bar of womanhood that high. May they inspire our generation to respect women, and inspire our women to live respectable lives! – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM.
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