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22.02.2012 RELIGIOUS PRACTICES

Posted under Reflections on February 21st, 2012 by

GOSPEL  READING:  MATTHEW 6:1-6, 16-18

 

Almsgiving, prayer and fasting are the three major religious practices in the Jewish religion. Practices in a religion make one whole and integral. Also these practices make one to relate to God, to one another and within oneself.

 

Almsgiving makes the doer to relate to the poor and the needy. It makes him feel with the needy and makes the doer to go down to level of the needy and to associate with him. Almsgiving builds up an attitude towards the poor.

 

Prayer makes one to relate to God. Prayer is in fact relationship with God and that is why praying is a mystery. This relationship is personal and secret. Relationship with God is not for public show. Religious practices have only one goal: right relationship.

 

Fasting and doing penances are to build right relationship within oneself. Whatever one does for oneself should make him integral. There should be cohesion in his doing and saying.  His religious practices (fasting etc) are not for others. It is for himself only.

 

நற்செய்தி வாசகம்: மத்தேயு 6:1-6, 16-18

 

அறச்செயல்கள் (தர்மம் செய்தல், இறைவேண்டல், நோன்பு இருத்தல்) எல்லாமே உறவை வளர்க்கவே. தர்மம் செய்தல் அடுத்திருப்பவரோடு (ஏழைகளோடு) உறவை வளர்க்கிறது. இறைவேண்டல் இறைவனோடு சரியான உறவை வளர்க்கிறது. நோன்பு இருத்தல் தனக்குள்ளே உள்ள உறவை சரிசெய்கிறது. சரியான உறவுதான் வாழ்வின் நோக்கம் அதுவே அறச்செயல்களின் குறிக்கோள்.  

21.02.2012 TEACHING

Posted under Reflections on February 21st, 2012 by

GOSPEL  READING:  MARK 9:30-37

 

Jesus was teaching his disciples about his death. Jesus was teaching about it. The disciples had to learn about death. We hear that death is a natural consequence or natural event in ones life. It is true and it will be so for most of the people. But if one wants to be a disciple then he has to learn to die. Death of the disciple should not be a natural event but an event encountered by the disciple with free decision.

 

Disciples did not learn what Jesus was teaching them. They were going about with the natural feelings and wants and desires. Natural tendency is to look for success, growth, post, position and greatness. They were right in going about the way they were as humans. But it is different and to be a disciples and the follower of Jesus. And this is what Jesus was teaching them.

 

நற்செய்தி வாசகம்: மாற்கு 9: 30-37

 

இயேசு தன் சீடர்களுக்கு கற்றுக் கொடுத்தார். சீடன் தன் இயல்புபடி நடப்பவன் அல்ல. மாறாக அவன் இயேசு கற்றுக்கொடுப்பதை வாழ்ந்து காட்டுபவனே. இன்றைய வாசகம் அவர் தம் சாவைப்பற்றி கற்றுக்கொடுத்தார் என்று கூறுகிறது. இயல்பான சாவு அல்ல அது. தானே முடிவெடுத்து எதிர்கொண்டு பிறர்வாழ தன்னையே அர்பணிப்பதாகும். இதை இயேசுவிடம் கற்றுத்தான் ஆகவேண்டும்.

 

 

 

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