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The Gospel begins with the disciples and Jesus praying. When he was finished praying the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. In response, Jesus offers a 3-part teaching which was a model prayer, a parable and some sayings about the prayer. From the first part of the scripture we can learn that prayer is definitely important and that we should pray every single day. Prayer is an important value of our lives and must not forget to pray. The second part of the scripture is about the parable of a man who has an unexpected guest in the middle of the night and has not enough bread for the man and asked some bread from his neighbour. His neighbour refused but in the end he eventually fulfilled the request of his neighbour and gave him some bread. As we learned from the parable hospitality plays a big part in the parable. It shows that hospitality is important. We should learn from the parable and empathize to others and be sensitive with their needs. Jesus the

Today in our gospel, we were introduced to a story where there were two sisters namely, Martha and Mary. In this story, Jesus went to a village and Martha welcomed Him with all the formalities she could offer, for Jesus was their special guest. She was basically like a typical Filipino nakapag may bisita, they would do all the official duties of hosting a guest. On the other hand, Mary, her sister, was spending time listening to Jesus instead of helping her sister. Of course, when situations like these happen, we would always react like Martha. When we do all the work we nag, we complain and compare to others on how big you have already contributed. Kung sa tagalog pa, nagbibilangan na.Dapat tumulong din ang iba. But looking back at the gospel, Jesus said to Martha, “You are anxious and worried about many things. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.” To deeply understand this gospel, sino na ba ditto naka experience mag plan or organize ng events wheth

S unday Reflection:July 7,2019 “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves. We wipe off the very dust of your town that clings to our feet,and leave it with you. Yet be sure of this, the Kingdom of God is very near.”   - Luke 10:2-3         In this gospel, it speaks about the “seventy-two on mission” whom Jesus sent out.   The mission was the same as Jesus own ministry, to cure the sick and say to them, “the “kingdom of God has come near to you.” The Harvest field that what Our Lord says is “God’s Church” and the Laborers are “the people” of the Lord. Jesus sends the disciples “like lambs among wolves” and the Lord will be their protection.  This reminds us when we reflected on “ The Mission of the Twelve” (Luke 6:12-16).  They were sent without anything to bring, recall that the staff was important