Reflection for FRIDAY, 31st Week, Ordinary Time

BY

            Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Director, Social Action Movement, Don Bosco Bidar  

Today's Gospel Verses


Luke 16:1-8   

 Jesus told his disciples: “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manager any longer.’ 

 “The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg

I know what I’ll do so that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.’

 “So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 

 “‘Nine hundred gallons of olive oil,’ he replied. 

 “The manager told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred and fifty.’ 

“Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’ 

 “‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied.

 “He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.’ 

 “The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

 Today's Reflection 

To say that there is nothing new under the sun is to say that what is happening now in the so-called modern world can be traced back to an era in history.

In other words, there is nothing truly novel in existence; every new idea has some sort of beginning or echo from the past.

So if we think that today’s world is in such a messy state, it is actually not that much different from before.

As St. Paul would say in the 1st reading, there were people who make foods into their god and they were proudest of something they ought to be shameful. The things they think important are earthly things.

As it was then, so it is now. So human beings haven’t changed much, especially in their wayward and immoral way of life.

The gospel parable about the dishonest steward only serves to reiterate this reality.

But St. Paul pleaded with the early Christian community, and he pleaded with tears, that as Christians, they should not behave as the enemies of the Cross of Christ, and end up being lost.

As he pleaded then, so is St. Paul pleading with us now.

And he also reminds us that our homeland is in heaven and Jesus is our Saviour.

So let us not give way to the world but remain faithful in the Lord, who is our Saviour, and forever He will be.


         GOD BLESS YOU

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