32nd Week in Ord. Time, Thursday – 14th November 2019 — Gospel: Lk 17,20-25
Living in the kingdom
Jesus tries to correct the Pharisees’ perception that the kingdom is tied to specific future events to which they can point by looking here or there. Like many Jews of the time, the Pharisees thought that the arrival of God’s kingdom would be so clear and powerful that magnificent signs from heaven would announce it. Jesus explains, that the “kingdom of God is among you.” They must understand that the kingdom has already come, at least in its initial manifestation, in Jesus himself. All who respond to him with faith, like the grateful Samaritan, experience the kingdom within themselves and among the community of fellow believers.
