Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: Mt 5:13-16

Salt is to give taste and season the food. Jesus tells his listeners that they are the salt of the earth. His disciples are to give taste to the earth and season the earth. His followers are not just to live and let live the others. Their life is not self oriented either. Life of any disciple of Jesus has to communicate something to the people around. Disciples have to season the world and give taste to the world.

Disciples are also light of the world. They have to illumine the world and they have to be visible. Again, like the salt, light is not for itself. It is for the others. And the qualities of light are to be seen and illumine the others. Disciples’ lives are to give light to the others.

Good deeds of the disciples are the salt and light. Jesus concludes thus saying that the people may see your good deeds and give glory to God. Good deeds of the disciples should add taste to the world and season the world. Good deeds also should illumine the world and be seen as good deeds. These good deeds are those that give glory to God. The disciples should not expect rewards for themselves for the good deeds done. The goal of the good deeds is the glory of God.

உணவும் ஒளியும் வாழ்வுக்கு இன்றியமையாதவைகள். உணவு ருசியாக இருக்கவேண்டும் அதேபோல் கெட்டுப்போகாமல் இருக்கவேண்டும். சீடர்கள் இதுபோன்ற அடிப்படை பணிகளைச் செய்யவேண்டும்.

GOSPEL READING: MARK 6:14-29

Everyone understands and accepts things as they view or as they experience or as they expect it to happen. An individual’s background and situation play a major role in his understanding of other persons and events that take place. Only when one sheds his personal interests and motivations and accepts the revelations of God then he is able to reach the truth.

Some people expected a prophet to come into the world and that was the reason that thought Jesus to be a prophet. There were people who were who were waiting for the end of the world and that was the reason they believed in Jesus as Elijah. Herod who had beheaded John was disturbed by his own actions. This was one of the reasons why he saw Jesus to be John raised from the dead.

ஒவ்வொரு மனிதனும் தன்னுடைய அனுபவ பிண்ணனியிலும் வாழ்க்கை நிகழ்வுகளின் பிண்ணனியிலும்தான் இன்று நடக்கின்ற நிகழ்வுகளையும் காண்கின்ற நபர்களையும் புரிந்து கொள்கிறான். அதனால்த்;தான் ஒருசிலர் இயேசுவை இறைவாக்கினராக அல்லது எலியாவாக ஏற்றுக்கொள்கின்றனர். ஏரோதும் அதனால்த்தான் இயேசுவை திருமுழுக்கு யோவான் என்று கூறுகிறார்.