Breaking the Word

30^th Week in Ord. Time, Wednesday – 27^th October 2021 — Gospel: Lk 13,22-30

Seek God’s Hospitality

As Jesus moves on to the city of destiny, the growing sense of crisis prompts a question about the number who will be saved. Jesus urges his listeners to ask, not how many will be saved, but whether they themselves will be saved. He gives a warning not to miss the opportunity while it is still available. When an entrance is narrow and many are trying to go through, it is hard to get to the front right away. Or the image alters to gain an entry to a house. Do not wait till all is barred and locked up for the night. It will be of no use then standing outside knocking, because outward contact with the house owner does not save. Since the lodging will be filled up with others (like the Gentiles), who have entered before you. The hospitality of God is ample and generous. But it will not be available forever. Human being can exclude themselves from God’s salvation or His company, by not being prepared to accept His hospitality at the time When He offers.

30^thWeek in Ord. Time, Tuesday – 26^th October 2021 — Gospel: Lk 13,18-21

Significant Beginnings

In these two parables, we find the mention of a man and a woman. While in the parable of the mustard seed, it is a “man” who sows; in the parable of the yeast, it is a “woman” who mixes it. These parables reveal the deeper and inner dynamics of the beginnings of the kingdom of God. God’s work in this world is a mystery and great things have come from these small beginnings. It has been calculated that it takes 725 to 760 mustard seeds to make a gram, yet the mustard plant grows to a height of eight to nine feet. The mustard seed has the tremendous power within and the emphasis here is of its insignificant beginnings. In the parable of the yeast, the three measures of flour that are leavened are equivalent to fifty pounds of flour, enough to make bread for about one hundred fifty people. This parable reminds us of the power the leaven contained. Even the small beginnings are powerful enough to transform eventually the character of the larger quantity.