Self- inviting Jesus Self- inviting. Jesusby Rev. Jerome. Sunday. in Ordinary Time. October 2. 9, 3. 0 and 3. Festival of Lights (Deepavali or Diwali) is celebrated by the Indians. Wish you all a meaningful celebration of the Festival of Lights. For the. past few weeks, there have been some instructive, short videos shared in social networks, on how to celebrate Deepavali in. One of them talked about abstaining from bursting crackers which disturb animals and birds. When I saw. this video, I was questioning within myself: why we don’t speak of babies, senior citizens, patients in hospitals and. How many huts go up in flames when the firework. Perhaps there are other videos talking about. I did not get to see them. One. of those videos caught my attention to a great extent. It depicts a young man who piles a few 1. Rupee notes on the pavement. Another man, carrying bags of crackers, runs to him and asks him whether the young man is out of his. The young man points to the bag of crackers and says, “Do you think you. The young man then goes on to explain how, with the money spent on crackers, which again amounts to burning money, he. Deepavali happier. As he says these lines, we see. Many of those poor, senior citizens bless. Nel novembre del 2003 Aureliano, 28enne anarchico e antimilitarista, dopo aver accettato la proposta di partire per l’Iraq come aiuto regista per un film che si. Islam converted 1.6 billion people The reason Islam has so many followers is because these desert Wanderers would ruthlessly go into other countries in asia like india. All those headlines, the dead bodies, the complete whitewashing and brainwashing by the MSM, the criminals in Washington, the criminal banksters and. What better joy can one get than this! This short video. Hope this Festival of Lights helps us bring more light to the lives of people. On this Festival, it is coincidental or providential that we have a Gospel passage where we see Jesus. Jesus invites himself to the house of Zacchaeus. Luke 1. 9: 1- 1. 0. It is no surprise that the Gospel of Luke, known as the . Time and again human history keeps telling us that God and Christ. Today’s Gospel gives us one more proof of this. Zacchaeus. discovers Jesus on the branches of a tree. It is, rather, Jesus who discovers Zacchaeus. Here is how I visualise this . Jesus was walking along the streets of Jericho. His fame had. spread far and wide and so he was surrounded by a crowd. There were many reasons why the crowd followed Jesus. Most of the poor people who followed Jesus, were hopeful that they would be saved by Jesus –. Those who came to Jesus, seeking a miracle, had to invent ways to tackle the. The friends of the paralytic sent him down from the roof (Luke 5: 1. A B C D E F G H I J - R S - Z. Abernant 1984/85 By The Mekons. A tribute to miners and the British Miners' Strike of 1984. Mint in publishers decorated wrappers (still shrink wrapped). Illustrated throughout. 1st edition, 1st issue. Western Europe: History and Politics: Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley. CHAI Kerala Chapter Formed. Bangaluru, March 6, 2015. During the course of the CHAI workshop held at the DVK Research Center Bangalore ably led by Dr. Confessions Of A Frequent Flyer. America In Decline Articles. Confessions Of A Frequent Flyer By Brother Nathanael Kapner September 4, 2016 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Contents 2 4 5 6 6 8 F oreword Organization Thank You! Partners of IDFA Catalogue Credits. The woman with the flow of blood had to approach. Jesus stealthily from behind (Luke 8: 4. Here is another method chosen by Zacchaeus. He climbed up the tree. A miracle. brought him down. Before we go into the miracle part of it, we need to know who this. Zacchaeus is. He was a tax collector. I see a connection among these three. Being a tax collector and being short were also connected. Hence, from his birth, he had been receiving only hatred and curses from the people around him. This was the case with Zacchaeus. The Jews hated the Romans. But they hated another group MORE - the group of Jews –. They were the sycophants of the Romans. They were simply, THE SINNERS! This. label which was stuck on Zacchaeus did not allow him to grow up. Zacchaeus was. curious to see Jesus. If Jesus could have come to the street where Zacchaeus lived, he would have happily stayed at home. Jesus and the crowd from the top angle. The top angle would have given Zacchaeus a powerful. Zacchaeus felt that Jesus would not come to where he lived, since Jesus preferred the poorer section of the city. He feared the ridicule and scorn of the crowd around Jesus and, hence, he invented a new way. Jesus. He climbed up the tree. Let us come back to the miracle part. He saw Zacchaeus sitting on a tree. A young person sitting. Why was a middle aged person sitting there? Was he mentally disturbed? He did not seem to be so. So, Jesus turned around to those who were following him and asked them: “Who is that man?” Those around. Jesus looked at the person he was pointing at. Jesus, as was his wont, swept aside all those irrelevant trash and insisted on knowing. After squeezing their collective memory for sometime, they begrudgingly revealed the name: Zacchaeus. Jesus registered. ZACCHAEUS! Jesus went to the tree and called out: “Zacchaeus, come. I must stay at your house today.” This was the first part of the miracle! Some one called Zacchaeus by name. It was as if Zacchaeus was born again and he was . A person, who came from his own tribe which. Zacchaeus was called by name and a miracle happened. The miracle of complete transformation. The Bible and. our Christian tradition as well as many other religious traditions talk of persons getting completely transformed –. Another popular term for this . We do talk about our own conversions. He does not proclaim very vague, general platitudes like: “Oh, Lord, I shall be good. I shall not harm others. He is not speaking like a politician, for. If I come to power, I shall do this, and that and the. If these words remind you of some presidential candidates, I am not to blame! The Gospel says that “Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord” during the dinner. He did not whisper this. Jesus. This was a proclamation made from the rooftop, almost. When Zacchaeus stood up to speak, he was SHORT, still. But. when he finished saying those lines, he really STOOD TALL. When Zacchaeus climbed the tree, he was a crooked tax collector. But, he was brought down from the tree by Jesus as a human being first and, perhaps later. This great transformation took place since Jesus CALLED HIM BY NAME thus making him discover his original beauty. James Gilhooley begins his homily on Zacchaeus, with these. He went on to say that where beauty is apparent, we should enjoy. Where beauty is hidden, we should unveil it. Where beauty is defaced, we should restore it. Where there is no beauty at. The Gospel gives us a proof of Jesus. Zacchaeus to his original beauty. All of us are called to be co- creators of beauty in this world. He preached in the great cathedral of Florence, Italy. Blessed Virgin Mary. When Savonarola started preaching at this great cathedral. Mary. He then began to notice that it was her habit to come. Savonarola remarked one day to an elderly priest who had been serving in the cathedral. Every day she comes and offers prayers to the blessed Mother. Jesus. What a marvelous act of Faith! Many. years ago, when the sculptor needed a model to pose for this statue of the blessed Mother, he hired a beautiful young woman. This devout worshiper you see here every day, was that young woman. She is worshipping who she used to be.? It is possible, says Jesus in today’s Gospel. Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector (Luke 1. In the 1. 8th chapter, Luke presents. Unjust Judge and the Widow, which we read last Sunday, and the Parable of the Pharisee and the. Tax Collector. The opening words of this parable, namely, “Two men went up into the temple to pray. But, Luke’s introduction to this parable gives us a clue as to the intention. Jesus: Jesus also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised. Luke uses a similar introduction to the parable of the Unjust Judge and the. Widow: And he told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. But, Jesus narrated this parable without mentioning a. He spoke of the widow who kept pursuing the judge wherever he went – the road, the court, the judge’s. While running from pillar to post, the widow must have raised her heart to God. Although Jesus intended to use this parable to teach about perseverance in prayer, we can easily. Jesus was also teaching an indirect lesson that no place is . The most fitting place for prayer, as most of us would agree, is the temple. But, Jesus uses the temple, not to teach. Jesus used the temple only as a backdrop, while he was concentrating. Pharisee and the Tax Collector. Jesus is telling. God. When Jesus began the parable with the words: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee. These thoughts of the people came crashing down when Jesus dropped a bomb at the end of the parable: “I. Pharisee); for every one. Lk. 1. 8: 1. 4) Humility, one of the cardinal. Christian virtues, is called the foundation of all the other virtues by Saint Augustine: “Humility is. Hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other. C. S. Lewis, the famous British lay theologian, in his book Mere. Christianity wrote an article on pride with the title: The Great Sin. Here are some relevant. There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which everyone loathes when he sees it in someone. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in. Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti- God. Pride is essentially competitive – is competitive by its very nature – while. Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of. If every one else became equally. It is the comparison that makes you proud, the. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone. The Pharisee was trying to impress God, not. Here is. an interesting quote by an anonymous person: “Humility is a paradox. The moment you think you've finally. There has yet to be written a book titled, . It is so simple that one can take it for. Before we close today’s reflections, a word about this Sunday – the Mission Sunday. The Catholic Church. Mission Sunday on the penultimate Sunday of October. Combining Mission Sunday with the gospel lesson. Mission Sunday in today’s world. The Catholic Church has been. Mission Sunday with a subtle tinge of pride about the way we have sent missionaries far and wide into the. Today it would make more sense if we celebrate the Mission Sunday by sending . We need to celebrate the . I like to use the image of a field. It exists where there is combat. It is not a solid structure. It is a mobile structure. It is a place for urgent care. I hope that the Jubilee ! Most of Chile was awake with anticipation. His seven year old son and his wife ran to him. Florencio embraced them and kissed them. The whole nation erupted in joy. This cheer. and joy continued every hour following this incident.
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