Gospel: Matthew13:47-53
Jesus
said to the disciples: "The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into
the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore
and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. Thus
it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the
wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there
will be wailing and grinding of teeth."
"Do
you understand all these things?" They answered, "Yes." And he
replied, "Then every scribe who has been instructed in the Kingdom of
heaven is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom both the
new and the old." When Jesus finished these parables, he went away from
there.
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Reflection:
A mother
was pleading to her son to straighten-up his life. But the son would pretend
not to hear the pleadings of his mother. So he continued to commit sin until he
grew old and eventually died. After dying the son was immediately whisked into
hell by the devil.
Hell and
the devil is not only an afterlife reality, it’s also a present life reality.
We would become a close confidant of the Devil and taste hell in this present
life if we continue to sin. We will have no peace of mind; our lives would be
problematic. The root cause of this problematic life is our refusal to leave
behind sin.
Our
gospel for today clearly states this: “Thus it will be at the end of the age. The
angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them
into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth
(Matthew 13:49-50).”
There’s a
hellish price for our sinfulness. But why suffer the grievous price of sin when
we can walk-a-way from it? Why not walk away
from sin now, right now. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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