Gospel: Matthew 1:1-17
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ,
the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham became the father of Isaac, Isaac
the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. Judah became
the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar. Perez became the father
of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram, Ram the father of Amminadab. Amminadab
became the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon, Salmon the father
of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed, whose mother
was Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse, Jesse the father of David the king.
David became the father of Solomon, whose
mother had been the wife of Uriah. Solomon became the father of Rehoboam,
Rehoboam the father of Abijah, Abijah the father of Asaph. Asaph became the
father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of
Uzziah. Uzziah became the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the
father of Hezekiah. Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father
of Amos, Amos the father of Josiah. Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and
his brothers at the time of the Babylonian exile.
After the Babylonian exile, Jechoniah
became the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel, Zerubbabel
the father of Abiud. Abiud became the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of
Azor, Azor the father of Zadok. Zadok became the father of Achim, Achim the
father of Eliud, Eliud the father of Eleazar. Eleazar became the father of
Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband
of Mary. Of her was born Jesus who is called the Christ.
Thus the total number of generations from
Abraham to David is fourteen generations; from David to the Babylonian exile,
fourteen generations; from the Babylonian exile to the Christ, fourteen
generations.
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Reflection:
With the modernity of technology today
wherein we are always busy with facebook and our many gadgets. Do we still have
time to know our family tree or are we still willing to know our family tree?
Say for example the names of our ancestors, are we still willing to know them?
Or we don’t have time to know them for the
simple reason that they belong to the past already. And we are now here in this
high-technology driven times where there is less people to people interaction.
We now interact more with our internet friendly cell phones, ipads, laptops
etc.
Nevertheless, we still need to know who our
relatives are for the simple reason that we are humans, we are not high tech
cell phones or other gadgets. And as such we need to know who our relatives
are, so that we could also touch base and help them if they are in need of
help.
We have in our gospel the ancestry of
Jesus, it traces the family history of Jesus. From Abraham, King David up to
Saint Joseph the designated father of Jesus. This ancestry shows the humanity
of Jesus.
Even if He is God the Son Jesus is also
human like all of us and being human this means that He is one with us. We can
even adopt Him as our relative so that we could feel more closer to Him. For
example we can treat Jesus as our brother or even our father that we could
communicate with anytime.
God could have chosen Jesus to directly
originate from heaven like a shooting star coming into earth. But God allowed
Jesus to come from an ancestry of numerous people so that we can always be at
home with Him. And so that we could treat Him as our close friend, our brother
or even our father.
How’s your relationship with Jesus? - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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