Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: MATTHEW 10:37-42

The disciples should choose Jesus before the nearest and dearest relations (Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me). It is not that they have to be neglected instead Jesus has to be the first. Before ease and safety cross should be taken (whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me). Same way Jesus should be taken before life (Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it).

Jesus does not in any way speak against relations and the safety and security of life or against life itself rather he invites his disciples to primacy to Jesus before other things. It is this that will allow the disciple to receive the blessings and rewards. Rewards are only in relation to Jesus.

உறவு> உயிர்> பாதுகாப்பு போன்றவைகளுக்கு முன் இயேசு தேர்ந்துகொள்ளப்பட வேண்டும். இயேசுவோடு கொண்டுள்ள உறவு எப்படி இருக்கிறதோ அதுபோலவே பயனும் இருக்கும்.

GOSPEL READING: MATTHEW 8:5-17

Jesus healed many people while he was doing his public ministry. One requirement for healing was the faith. In many cases he demanded the faith from the people who were in need of healing but there were also cases where the faith of the sick person was not needed but the one who wanted him/her to be healed. This was the case of the one who was paralyzed and was carried by four and now here in this case of the centurion.

Here in the case of the mother -in- law of Peter and the healings done in the evening nothing is mentioned about this requirement. Faith is not expressed but probably it is presumed or believed to have had. Divine action is free and gratuitous and it does not have any requirement. Healing is totally a divine action.

இந்த நற்செய்தி பகுதியில் இயேசு நூற்றுவர் தலைவரின் பணியாளனை குணப்படுத்துகிறார்> பேதுருவின் மாமியாரை குணப்படுத்துகிறார்> மாலையில் பலரையும் குணப்படுத்துகிறார். ஒரு சில வேளைகளில் நம்பிக்கை தேவைப்படுகிறது> பல வேளைகளில் இனாமாக புதுமைகள் செய்யப்படுகிறது. புதுமைகள் இறைச்செயல்களே.