Gospel: Matthew
10:34-11:1
Jesus
said to his Apostles: "Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon
the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set
a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law; and one's enemies will be those of his household.
"Whoever
loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son
or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his
cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose
it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
"Whoever
receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's
reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is righteous will
receive a righteous man's reward. And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to
one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple–amen, I say to you,
he will surely not lose his reward."
When
Jesus finished giving these commands to his Twelve disciples, he went away from
that place to teach and to preach in their towns.
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Reflection:
A very
generous man was being envied by his friend because he does not seem to run out
of money even if he constantly give money and food to his poor neighbors. So
the friend asked this very generous man: “What is your secret that you don’t
seem to run out of money? The generous man said, no secret at all I just give
because I want to give.
Whatever
that we generously give will come back to us a hundred fold if we don’t believe
this let us try to be generous even for a week and see the reward that will be
ploughed back to us. Reward that is not only limited with money, we may receive
reward by way of good health, peace of mind and the like.
Jesus in
our gospel mentions reward for those who do good no matter how small the act of
goodness and generosity. Why? This is for the reason that it’s in giving that
we would always receive and the more that we give the more that we would receive.
- Marino J. Dasmarinas
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