September 23, 2018 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)
Jesus said, “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.” What is so special about a child that Jesus should put him at the center of salvation? We all admit that a child “Contributes nothing significant to society directly”, is “Helpless”, “Ignorant”, considered “Least in society”, and “Dependent”. (The foregoing characteristics in quotation marks form the acronym “child”). But if we, adults, welcome our fellowmen with any of these characteristics, we welcome Christ.
Children share the above-cited characteristics with the poor in general. Many people also look upon the poor as contributing very little, if at all, to society. Someone even proposed that the poor should not be allowed to vote during National and Local elections.
Like children, poor people are also “helpless”, “ignorant”, “least” and “dependent” But these categories are not exclusive to the financially poor. There are rich people 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.
The bottom line is that we can find a “child” to welcome at any level of society. When we do, we welcome Christ, for he himself said, “Whatever you do to the least of my brothers you do unto me.” — (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M. Email: [email protected].
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