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Today’s bible lessons are on prayer. In Genesis Abraham is praying to God pleading not to destroy a city for the sake of the righteous people there. Jesus teaches the disciples how to pray. He even cites examples of human parents as to how they respond to the supplications of friends and children. We are so familiar with the prayer Jesus […]

Today’s bible lessons speak about hospitality, its profits and rewards. Abraham entertains three strangers and ends up with a blessing that his wife Sarah and he could not have imagined and it was so real that they could not believe it for a while.  Abraham’s expression of welcome and all that he did, his postures and gestures may be a bit […]

In the gospel today the lawyer wanted to have a shortcut to eternal life. Jesus doesn’t have anything new except that which is in their own law. He asks the lawyer to look into the law, which he was practicing. The lawyer finds the correct law point and the requirement, which is to love God and his neighbor; Jesus tells him […]

There is a sense of joyous celebration in all the readings today.  In the psalm the whole earth is invited to make a joyful cry to God.  All these calls for joy are made because our God cares and we have a home in Him! Isaiah invites us to rejoice with Jerusalem because of the […]

Anointing, call, farewell requests, plough, freedom, etc. pop up in today’s readings. Without waiting for a prior consent, God sends Elijah to anoint Elisha as the prophet. Apparently God has the ‘least respect’ for Elisha’s freedom!  In the gospel one’s request to follow is rejected by Jesus, while he calls two others whom he denies their desire and ‘legitimate’ request to […]

All of us like to stand before our own reflection at least for a while. We are curious overhearing others if they happen to be speaking about us. In such instances we are searching to know how we look like, what others think about us, how are we seen by others, what others speak about us? We even check with […]

Repentance is something that provokes God to love. Depending on the depth of repentance God’s love and mercy continue to overflow in geometric proportion. We have two prominent examples today. Highlights of forgiveness to David and to the sinful woman at Simon’s house are star examples of God’s unconditional forgiveness, compassion and overflowing love. The moment David said ‘I have sinned’, which was […]

Today we have stories of two widows getting back their dead sons. Prophet Elijah had been with the widow for some time. Perhaps she had not yet recognized him as a man of God or it could be that she in her extreme pain or feeling of loss just forgot the blessings received in the past or being received currently. For […]

Before Christ, God spoke to the world, to humanity through signs and wonders, through prophets and so on. However, humanity’s thirst for seeing and for being in communion with God, for touching and feeling God was not fulfilled until Jesus came. Jesus in our human flesh was the perfect communication and communion of God to humans. When it was time for him […]