29022016 Gospel Lk 4:24-30

Jesus added, “No prophet is honored in his own country. Truly, I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens withheld rain for three years and six months and a great famine came over the whole land. Yet, Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow of Zarephath, in the country of Sidon. There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha, the prophet; and no one was healed except Naaman, the Syrian.”

On hearing these words, the whole assembly became indignant. They rose up and brought him out of the town, to the edge of the hill on which Nazareth is built, intending to throw him down the cliff. But he passed through their midst and went his way.

Repleksiyon:

An tinuod sanan halayum na gugma dili mapalit o kabayluhan nan bisan pila na kantidad sanan an gugma waya’y makapukan bisan uno na puwersa. Amo ini kakusog nan puwersa nan paghigugma nan ato Ginoo. Ugsa na ato gajud pahinungdan an gugma nan Diyos pinaagi sa ato paghimo nan marajaw para sa ato isigkatawo sama sa ato paghimo nan marajaw para sa ato kaugalingon.

24022016 Gospel Mt 20:17-28

When Jesus was going to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and said to them, “See, we are going to Jerusalem. There, the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law; and they will condemn him to death. They will hand him over to the foreigners, who will mock him, scourge him and crucify him. But he will be raised to life on the third day.”

Then the mother of James and John came to Jesus with her sons, and she knelt down, to ask a favor. Jesus said to her, “What do you want?” And she answered, “Here, you have my two sons. Grant, that they may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.”

Jesus said to the brothers, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am about to drink?” They answered, “We can.” Jesus replied, “You will indeed drink my cup; but to sit at my right or at my left is not for me to grant. That will be for those, for whom my Father has prepared it.”

The other ten heard all this, and were angry with the two brothers. Then Jesus called them to him and said, “You know, that the rulers of nations behave like tyrants, and the power­ful oppress them. It shall not be so among you: whoever wants to be great in your community, let him minis­ter to the community. And if you want to be the first of all, make yourself the servant of all. Be like the Son of Man, who came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life to redeem many.”

Repleksiyon:

Kon gusto gajud nato na masunod sa mga yapak ni Jesus, kinahanglan na andam kita mo-himo nan mga butang na gusto Nija ipahimo dato - an magmahal sa ato isigka-tawo sama sa ato pagmahal sa ato kaugalingon.

Manerbisyo kita sa ato mga silingan agi'g pagpakita nan ato pagmahal dila base sa ato pagmahal sa ato Ginoo.