Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: Mt 23:1-12

The scribes and Pharisees are leaders. As leaders they present the crowds with lots of rules, regulations, and traditions. But they themselves do not practice those rules etc. They multiply external practices. They believed that the external practices will reveal the internal dispositions. But in their cases the externals only revealed the internal pretentions.

Followers of Jesus should all be brothers. They should all belong to one family to which God is the only father and they do not impose rules on others and play the role of a master. There is only one teacher and that is Jesus the Messiah. Service is the only way to express all these. Service to the other is the only thing that links the followers of Jesus with one another.

ஒருவருக்கொருவர் பணிசெய்வதே சீடருக்கான அடையாளம். சட்டங்கள் ஒழுங்குகள் சீடத்துவத்திற்கான அடையாளம் அல்ல.

GOSPEL READING: MATTHEW 22:34-40

The desire of man is to know the greatest, the highest etc. Man thinks that the answer also would be very difficult and almost impossible. Because deep within man there is the feeling that whatever is great and noble and are hidden from the knowledge of man and he has to struggle to know them.

But Jesus’ answer proves that those things are the most simplest and easiest even to practice. Man does not need to struggle to answer these things. Man makes great effort in trying to do the difficult things but he, in no way makes any effort to do the simplest things.

தலைசிறந்தவைகள் கடிணமானதாக இருக்கவேண்டும் என்பது மனித சிந்தனை. ஆனால் இன்று இயேசு அவைகள்தான் எளிதானவைகள் என்று கூறுகிறார்