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“Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?... He said in reply ‘ You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself’…. ‘ He said to Jesus:  ‘And who is my neighbor?”  Lk 10: 25-37 I just want to focus on some of the lines above. Let us little by little discuss it briefly. First, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” The scholar in the Gospel had a vision to have an eternal life.  This is the problem today, do we, ourselves, wish and dream of having an eternal life? We are so bombarded of the ideals of the earthly world. It tells us that: The number of significant figures we had made in our bank accounts, are more important than God. (which in truth all of this came from God) There are remote controls that in just one click we can have everything we think we need. (there’s   a difference between our wants and what God thinks we need, all we need...

One of our Youth Ministry’s favourite songs is Commission my Soul by Citipointe. When the keyboard starts the rhythm, I personally get lost in the bliss of it all. The song starts in a real slow, swaying motion. The lyrics kick in, and it becomes a sweet dialogue between you and God. The guitars and the drums join the symphony and you find yourself bouncing to the beat, now, declaring ever more emphatically the message you want to convey. “ Commission my soul with a fire uncontrollable, for this great cause to save the lost, open my eyes to the reason I’m alive, O Lord, I’m ready now. I’ll follow You”. I find the song very appropriate with today’s gospel which talks about Jesus commissioning his disciples to the mission field. Luke’s Gospel has two stories of Jesus sending out his followers to go and spread the good news. Jesus sends the Twelve apostles (chapter 9), and the 70 disciples (chapter 10) on mission.According to the Jewish tradition, there are twelve tribes of Isr...

Men are sinners. We are all sinners. In the 1st reading, King David sinned against his wife and against the Lord for taking another man’s wife. Sin always destroys something good. Sin is ugly. It doesn’t only hurt people but by doing so, we also hurt God the most. Like David, sometimes we commit sin because of our own desires. We always think of ourselves and then on we tend to forget God’s love to us. Moving on, after King David’s dishonesty, there is one thing I hope that we would admire about him, he was honest enough to admit his wrongdoings. “I have sinned against the Lord.” David’s admission of guilt was simple and straightforward. Because sin is ugly, there would be times that we would rather hide it. Sometimes we hold back in admitting and confessing our sins and even refuse to recognize it as a sin. We don’t feel worthy to go to Church anymore but Let us not draw ourselves down and rather be like David - closer to God. The second reading teaches us that the law of God wi...