Wednesday,
February 13, 2019
5th Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: Gen 2:4-9, 15-17
Gospel: Mark 7:14-23
Jesus called the people to him again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and try to understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can make that person unclean. It is what comes out from within that makes unclean. Let everyone who has ears listen.”
When Jesus got home and was away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about this saying and he replied, “So even you are dull? Do you not see that whatever comes from outside cannot make a person unclean? Since it enters, not the heart but the stomach and is finally passed out.”
Thus Jesus declared that all foods are clean.
And he went on, “What comes out of a person is what defiles, for evil designs come out of the heart: theft, murder, adultery, jealousy, greed, maliciousness, deceit, indecency, slander, pride and folly. All these evil things come from within and make a person unclean.”
D@iGITAL EXPERIENCE
Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience Anna loved eating camote but because her husband resented the after effect of eating this root crop, she had to control her appetite for it. While driving home on her birthday, the car broke down. She had to rush home because she and her husband would take supper together. While walking home she could not refuse the smell of boiled camote from the basket of a pungko-pungko vendor. “I am going to shed off the gases by walking, anyway” she thought, “so I don’t think it’s bad to have a bite or two of camote.”
Coming home, she found her husband smiling at the gate, holding a handkerchief. “What’s with the handkerchief?” Anna asked. “I’m gonna put a blindfold on you because I have a pleasant surprise for you” the husband said. With the blindfold, she was led by her husband to the dining room.
By this time she could feel the effect of camote in her stomach. The husband was about to remove the blindfold when the phone rang and her husband had to take the call. Anna found her chance to let off all the gases she had accumulated in her stomach as a reaction to the camote. She shifted her weight a little bit to the left and let out some putrid air. Then she shifted to the right and released a louder one. By the time her husband returned, she felt very comfortable.
The husband delicately removed the blindfold from her wife’s eyes. Before she could adjust her eyes to the bright dining room light, guests in the sala sang in jubilant chorus: “Happy birthday to you”. She felt so embarrassed and almost broke to tears. But one of the guests broke the ice by quoting a verse from today’s Gospel reading: “Nothing that enters one from outside can make that person unclean”. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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