SATURDAY 16TH WEEK IN
ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: JEREMIAH
7:1-11
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 13:24-30
THEME: REWARD FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
The Lord has promised us many
good things if we come back to him. If we do not allow ourselves to be deceived
by all sorts of strange doctrines (Ephesians 4:14). He warns against all sorts
of evils we do and after come to his house to claim Christians. The two cannot
go together, choose one and leave the other and I advise we should choose God.
In the gospel, it explains what St. Augustine said that the church is the
church of saints and sinners. It is not God who made them sinners in his own
house or was it his intention for that to be rather the devil.
One person told me one day that
many evil men and women are in the Catholic Church and we allow them, for that
he will never in his life come back to Catholic Church again. If God allowed
them to grow together (Matthew 13:30), who are we to go and uproot them? He is
the Lord of the vineyard and knows what he will do after.
Those who remained in him, those
who remained righteous till the end, we will be taken to his barn where they
will be preserved forever. Let us remain
as wheat and we will be rewarded with his house. Thanks.
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