Wednesday of Week 14 Year A By Tobe Eze

Wednesday of Week 14 Year A

FIRST READING
Genesis 41:55–57; 42:5–7a, 17–24a

GOSPEL
Matthew 10:1–7

THEME: GOD MANIFESTS THROUGH IMPERFECTIONS

Joseph’s brothers were regretting the bad thing they did to their brother Joseph without knowing that God was just using them to fulfill the plan of saving them from the famine that befell them. God worked through the imperfect thing done to Joseph.

In the gospel Jesus himself called again imperfect men to carry out perfect work. He called tax collector whom the Pharisees regard as the worst set of people. Jesus called trouble makers and peace makers. He called the imperfect to perfect them.

God wants us to make a change whenever he wants to use us. Joseph’s brothers had a change of heart when they realized what they have done. They regretted the act and abandoned it. The apostles Jesus called in the gospel also abandoned their different ways of lives and embraced the new life of Christ.

Let us today learn to abandon our old way of living that does not please God like Joseph’s brothers and the twelve apostles that Jesus called. Let us remember that akwuro otu ebe ekiri mmanwu. Let us like the eagle that was living among chicken since its lifetime left there when it realized that, that place does not fit its kind. Sin does not fit us. Let us leave the way of sin and embrace the way of life.

Tuesday Week 14 Year A By Tobe Eze

Tuesday Week 14 Year A

First Reading:

Corinthians 4:7-15

Gospel:

Matthew 20:20-28

THEME: A MISTAKE CAN BE CORRECTED.

In the first reading, St. Paul is telling us that the mistake of those who oppose us are being corrected by Christ. We are afflicted in every way but not crushed etc. The reason for not crushing us is to propagate the life of Christ in our lives so that we may correct our lives and mistakes we have made.

In the gospel, the mother of James and John made a serious mistake that brought about the correction of the bad notion of those in positions. Jesus corrected that mistake immediately. People who were already with Christ and their mother was busy asking for positions. Christ made it clear for us to know that a leader should lead by examples. That is the correction of the mistake. We are all leaders and we are also all followers, so let us learn to serve those who are under us and it shall be well with us. Let us correct that mistake of thinking that a leader is God. Also, let us not always seek for only our personal things like the mother of James and John. Let it not be Nkem nkem but Nke anyị nke anyị.

Monday of Week 14 Year A By Tobe Eze

Monday of Week 14 Year A

FIRST READING
Genesis 28:10–22a

GOSPEL
Matthew 9:18–26

THEME: ENCOUNTER WITH THE LORD.

Encounter with the Lord changes life and things. In the first reading, Jacob encountered the Lord and his life automatically changed, he made promises for he became a fulfilled man immediately. In the gospel, Jarius an officer in the synagogue encountered God in the life of his daughter that Christ gave back life and happiness came back to his life and the life of his family. The woman who had suffered hemorrhage for twelve years got healed just that she encountered Jesus. Some of us today come to God and go without encountering him. Some of us are like the story of a goat that was always going for morning prayers. The goat was always sitting front (at the kneeler at the altar). It would continue to stay till during communion it would go. Some of us just come and go like that goat. We come to morning masses and prayers but no impact in us. It is not enough to be a Christian and to be participating in every activity of the church but also to live it out like those who have experienced God as we have. Let us today follow those who encountered Christ today and encounter him so that our lives will change from bad to good and people will really say, these are CHRISTIANS. THANKS.

SATURDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. Tobe Eze

SATURDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: ISAIAH 6:1-8
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 10:24-33
THEME: HE HAS PREPARED US FOR THE WORK.
In the first reading, Isaiah who was not ready for the work tried to give reason for that and he made him clean. His response changed immediately and he asked God to send him. This is the type of response he is expecting from us.
In the gospel, Jesus prepared his disciples on what they will see in the ministry of his words and sacraments. They maltreated him Jesus, God and man, what about ordinary men. He gave them charge to go and proclaim the word in an open place without fear and be ready to face what will come out of it.
He has prepared us also today in his church through his teachings and sacraments, it is now our duty to go out to open places and proclaim them. He who denies him before men will be denied by him before his father and he who proclaims him before men, he will proclaim before his father.
A man very charismatic in a certain parish was preaching about those who snatch people’s lands from them. As he was preaching, his uncle who is well known of doing that came, because he was afraid of him, he changed the topic so that the man will not think that he was talking to him or about him. Fear only the one who can kill both body and soul.
The word of God is expected to be preached to all no matter whom it may affect for it is a double edged sword that pierces many hearts. He has prepared us for the work, let us not waste his effort rather utilize it. The work and glory are his and salvation is ours. Thanks.

FRIDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

FRIDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: HOSEA 14:1-9
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 10:16-23
THEME: JUST RETURN AND LEAVE THE REST FOR GOD.
God who is reach in mercy knows what is best for us and that, he likes giving us always. He loves us so much that his mission is just to save us and not to leave us to die in sin.
In the first reading, he is asking us to renounce all our evil ways especially those we have taken as our personal gods. We have to leave them and come back to him that he has all we need on earth and after.
In the gospel, he is telling us that we will suffer many things for following him but, he is always with us. We will be hated by father, mother, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, neighbours, friends and enemies for following him but he will always give us what we will answer in the face of trials.
I met a man who told me that he cannot become a Christian at his age for God has nothing to do with him again. I told him that God has many things to achieve with and through him but he insisted. After some years, he became a Christian. Change from your (Our) evil ways and leave how God will clean them, it is his field not ours. Just return to him and leave the rest. Just allow him to send you, as he promised in the gospel, he will do. He told them not to be afraid of what they will say for he will supply. He is ever ready to help us when we return to him. Thanks.

THURSDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

THURSDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: HOSEA 11:1-4.8C-9
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 10:7-15
THEME: HE IS A GOD THAT HEALS.
After all we have done to him (our God), he still said he will not destroy us. He is still in serious love with us. He is still giving us opportunities to change our ways of life and that he did in the gospel. He sent out his disciples to go and preach, heal, raise the dead and do many other miracles in his name without charge. 
The only thing we have to offer him is for us to accept his messengers. He wants us to be healed in every form we are suffering. Spiritual, physical, emotional, psychological and so on. That was why he said to his disciples to heal all their infirmities not one form but all. Those he sent will do his works without charges but those who send themselves will do with charges, this is a way to know fake prophets. They have prices for every spiritual activity.
As we have heard that any town, people or nation that rejects his disciples will suffer it at the last day. The ball is now in our own court to play. We are now to choose between the two. Anyone we choose has its own responsibilities. If we choose to welcome and hear them, we should be ready to put their teachings  into practice and if we choose to reject them, eternal damnation awaits us. He is a God that heals and we should help him in this his healing plans by obeying his words that he speaks to us through his messengers. Thanks.

WEDNESDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

WEDNESDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: HOSEA 10:1-3.7-8.12
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 10:1-7
THEME: NO MATTER OUR SINS, HE STILL CARES FOR HIS PEOPLE.
In the first reading, God was still complaining about the sins of Israelites that grew with them. It is the same with us today. As we grow in development, we grow also in sin. Technology came to help us but we are using them as avenue for sins. All sorts of atrocities are now done through the product of science and technology. As we are doing these, God is still planning on how to save us. How?
In the gospel, he called men who will learn from him all that he learnt from his father to help the gospel to reach to the ends of the world. He called men from all works of life especially those whom the society regarded as nothing or sinners.
He called the weak that they may understand those who are weak also. He cares for us even when we sin. Jesus died for us even when we were still sinners (Romans 5:8). He does not look on our sins before planning for our salvation. He calls men today to his vineyard to save his people. We should recognised that and follow him and it shall be well with us. Thanks.

TUESDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

TUESDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: HOSEA 8:4-7.11-13
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 9:32-38
THEME: THE WORK STARTS FROM US.
The labourers are really few but the little we have are making serious effort but the problem is that we the farm are not ready and disposed for them. 
Following the first reading, where many of us have made for ourselves places of sin and have forgotten God. Some have already disposed themselves for hellfire. The Israelites made themselves gods that they were worshiping and God was not happy with them and said he will take them back to Egypt to go and suffer again. God is not happy with us, the way we live our Christian life and he is ready to take us back to damnation which he has redeemed us from if we do not change.
The labourers in the gospel are very few till this day. We should help the few working and help also ourselves by putting to practice what they are teaching us. Labourers are called by God and not men. Not that they are few, then we will call ourselves into the harvest as some are doing these days. He asked his apostles to pray for the Lord of harvest to send labourers and not for people to send themselves. As we pray for labourers, let us know that their works can only be fruitful if we start from ourselves and put their teachings into practice. Thanks.

MONDAY 14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

MONDAY  14TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: HOSEA 2:14BC. 15CD-16.19-20
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 9:18-26
THEME: WE ARE MARRIED TO GOD’S MERCY.
That we are alive today is only by God’s mercy. That we have whatever we have is by his mercy and so on. It is not in any of our makings. If he should count our sins, we are no longer worthy of living. God's saving mercy and justice are what we have inherited from him through Jesus Christ his son through our baptism.
In the first reading, God said through the prophet Hosea that he will marry us in justice, mercy, steadfast love and righteousness. All we have and are, are only on this ground. 
To prove that love, mercy, justice and so on, he heeded to the plea of the two persons in the gospel. The woman with hemorrhage got healed because of his love and mercy. The daughter of a ruler was raised to life because of his love and mercy. We can still be healed in our various illnesses and be raised to life again from our different deaths. If we are married to his mercy, let us work towards that through our actions. A faithful wife gets good things from the husband likewise we will get from God if we remain faithful to him. Thanks.

SATURDAY 20TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

SATURDAY 20^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

1^ST READING: EZEKIEL 43:1-7A

GOSPEL: MATTHEW 21:1-12

THEME: THE PLACE OF EXULTATION.

We often as human beings like the place or places of exultation(s). Where we shall be recognized. There are two ways to this. Is it worldly recognition or heavenly recognition? As we can see in many ways of our lives that we majorly do things because of others. We wear beautiful cloths and many other things because of others.

A lady bought new dresses to show off on Sunday. She appeared so beautiful on Sunday. During offertory, she waited for all to have gone so that all will notice her and her new dress. As she was moving from the back with her regalia, she missed a step and fell down at the middle of the church and that disgraced her and all she was putting on. Sometimes, this is what the devil does to us. He will make us to always think of worldly things and he will disgrace us at the middle of the whole show.

The Pharisees and Sadducees who were doing things for men to recognize them were missing God’s recognition for men’s recognition has taken upper hand. It is because of this human recognition that we do all sorts of evil like in the gospel. Because we want people to call us names we go into one evil thing or society to make name and firm. After that what next? People lord it over the people under them in other to make firm which God warned us about it (1Peter 5:3). We do the same this day. Girls sell their bodies, even women not only girls do the same in order to be updated or sexiest etc.

God’s recognition and place of exultation is the best and that is what he showed us today in the first reading through prophet Ezekiel. Let us work for that God’s place of honour and we will enjoy it forever. Thanks.

FRIDAY 20TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

FRIDAY 20^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

1^ST READING: EZEKIEL 37:1-14

GOSPEL: MATTHEW 22:34-40

THEME: HOPE IN GOD, ALL HOPES ARE NOT LOST.

If the Lord had made the dry bones in the valley to regain life, we still have hope. If Jesus could silence both the Pharisees and Sadducees, we still have hope.

The only problem we have or we are having sometimes is that we always like God to do our wills in our own time not God’s will in his own time. Jesus has never forsaken anyone who trusted in him. If we really trust in him this day, he will raise our dry bones and silence our enemies. In that our worst situations, let us remember that with God everything is possible and we must bear in mind that the will of God is the first.

A woman had a sick child. The woman was always praying for the will of God to be done in her child’s life. One day the sickness was rising and getting worst. She continued praying for the will of God to take place. When she noticed that the child was dying she changed the prayer immediately. God if this is your will, let it not be done. The child latter died and the woman took it that God is disappointing. Latter she conceived again and gave birth to twins and that time she noticed that the will of God was right in the life of that dead child and God has visited her in the time of the Lord not her own time.

It is this our always seeking for our own wills that cause our losing of faith and hope in God. God is assuring us today that no matter our situations, he can still show us that he is the Lord our God who can raise and give life to dry bones and silence our enemies. Thanks.

THURSDAY 20TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

THURSDAY 20^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

1^ST READING: EZEKIEL 36:23-28

GOSPEL: MATTHEW 22:1-14

THEME: THINGS ARE READY WHERE WE ARE INVITED, WHERE ARE WE?

God in the first reading tells us that he will make us his people and he will be our God. He will prepare a home for us where hearts of flesh will be not hearts of stone. Hearts that know mercy and compassion.

In the gospel, he has already prepared it for us but we are not forth coming. What is that that is taking us out of God’s banquet? School, family, work, business, friends, relations and every other things or persons or places? Any of them that is doing that should leave us alone before he burns us up. A question needs to be asked about the man without wedding garment. Was it his fault, for he was just called at the late hour? He was on his own not preparing for any wedding and they called him and they did not give him time to go and prepare. The truth here is that, this is how our death will be to us. When we are not ready to die. We can see what happened to the man that was not ready. We have to be ready at any time, any day, anywhere for we do not the year, month, week, day, hour, minute and second that banquet we will enjoy will come. No excuse. Thanks.

WEDNESDAY 20TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

WEDNESDAY 20^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

1^ST READING: EZEKIEL 34:1-11

GOSPEL: MATTHEW 20:1-16A

THEME: WHAT IS OUR WORK?

Parents, community leaders, government rulers, church leaders, school leaders, doctors, nurses and every form of leadership. What is our work?

God in the first reading is not happy with us about the way we handle those he has given us to take care of. God is rebuking us today. We are now feeding on the sheep that we should be feeding. We have left the point, the focus, and our work and are now doing another thing.

Just like in the gospel, the labourers who left their works and started questioning the one who hired them about his generosity. We sacrifice our works on the altar of worthless things. Let us remain focus in our works that God has given us to do. He is not happy with us on the way we handle it and he is going to take them away from us and we know what that means. Let us make hare while the sun is still shining. Ka anyi were ehihie chuwa ewu oji tupu chi ejie. Let us go back to our duty post and do our works diligently and God will reward us according to his will not our own wills as he did in the gospel. Thanks.

TUESDAY 20TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

TUESDAY 20^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

1^ST READING: EZEKIEL 28:1-10

GOSPEL: MATTHEW 19:23-30

THEME: THE DANDER OF RICHNESS.

Richness in money, wisdom, people, intellect, sin and so on can bring us downfall. Igbos say, okwa nwa nza rijuo afo, ochere chi kere ya aka mgba. When one is rich in any form, one will think that he/she is above the heaven. In his riches, man lacks wisdom (Psalm 49:13).

Responsorial Psalm says, I kill and I make alive. God is the one who gives us all these gifts except the richness of sin. If God has the power to give us all these gifts, don’t we think he has the power also to take them away from us? Why then do we brag with them? God told Ezekiel to go and tell the house Israel or to remind them that they are not gods, he has power to do whatever he wills to then even in that their richness. Their richness moved them away from God and it is same today with us.

In the gospel, Jesus talked again about the danger of richness. How hard it will be for the rich to enter heaven. If we allow our richness of any form to influence us, then it will be easier for Carmel to go through the eye of a needle than we going into heaven. In any way or any form that we are rich, let it not move us away from God. The danger of richness is that it makes us lose focus. Thanks.

MONDAY 20TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

MONDAY 20^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

1^ST READING: EZEKIEL 24:15-24

GOSPEL: MATTHEW 19:16-22

THEME: THE PROBLEM OF PLEASURE.

It is never difficult to get or start a pleasurable act or something but the problem is how to stop it. The only problem of pleasure is how to stop it. Obughi ikunye enwe mmiri bu nsogbu kama inata ya iko. It is how to stop our actions that are not good is the problem and now how to start them. The Israelites since ages, God has been warning them, giving them all sorts of signs to leave their evil ways but it was and is a very difficult task for them. This is not the problem of only the Israelites of the old but the present Israelites which are us.

The rich man in the gospel could not take the teaching of Jesus because it touched his comfort zone. Richness in the Bible may not literarily mean wealth but richness in sin. Some of us who are wealthy are saints and some who are poor are devils and still the other way round. It is the richness in sin that God is talking about. Israelites grew in sin to the extent that God could not only talk to them but demonstrated it for them, also Jesus demonstrated the same for us and he is still demonstrating it for us to repent. That our pleasurable actions that do not give praise to God, we should work around the clock to stop it. We should work tooth and nail to leave them and heaven will be ours. It is difficult but not impossible. We should just make serious effort and God will help for he counts efforts and not result. Thanks.

SATURDAY 19TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

SATURDAY 19^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

1^ST READING: EZEKIEL 18:1-10. 13B. 30-32

GOSPEL: MATTHEW 19:13-15

THEME: YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.

Njo nna n’ eso nwa is now only a human concept but not God. It is wrong for it may make the child to continue in the sins of the father if the child knows that sins of his father or even forefathers will follow him/her. Many sins mentioned in the first reading touched the whole of our being. They touched the sins of omission which we often forget. Sometimes, it is these sins of omission that we commit most and we do not count them as sins. The catholic greeting, Onye jisie ike, orue alaeze, ma onye gbakata kwuru, the answer from time immemorial has been, nke ogbara agba ala n’ iyi. Changing it to nwanne ya enyere ya aka contradicts the first reading of today. We should bear in mind that before God, we must answer for ourselves. No one will suffer for our sins except us. Onweghi onye ga enyere anyi aka to face our punishment or enjoyment which means we must continue to work for ourselves without ceasing. It is a personal game not a group thing. We will face it alone. The earlier we realize this the better for us.

In the gospel, Jesus said, the kingdom of God is for those who have childlike heart. Childlike heart is a heart that do not think of any sin at all talk more of looking for another who will suffer for the consequences on their behalf. They do only things that will please their elders and that we should emulate to do things that please our God. Clean heart and a pure spirit is what every child of God should have. We must have that on our individual basis not in common, before we get heaven. That father had does not mean children should relax, onye na way ya. That father has a good heart and son/daughter is evil will not save you. It is our personal and individual death. My Death by Martin Heidegger. Thanks.

FRIDAY 19TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

FRIDAY 19^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

1^ST READING: EZEKIEL 16:1-15. 60. 63.

GOSPEL: MATTHEW 19:3-12

THEME: DIVORCE OF GOD.

It is no longer a new teaching that God and Church have no room for divorce in any valid wedding. So we are going to look at another divorce which connects us to the first reading.

After all that God did for the Israelites from their birth to their youthful age, they had the got to leave their God to follow other gods. After all a husband has done for and to her wife, the wife had the got to follow another man and at the end, divorce the husband. Also placing it the other way round on men. We divorce God in many places, things and occasions we do or go in our lives. When we private good things as St, Augustine said, evil will come in. When we leave the good things we ought to do and do bad things, in that way, we divorce God. God is calling us today and begging us not to divorce him again. What God has joined together through baptism, no sin should put asunder. We should remain on him. Thanks.

THURSDAY 19TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

THURSDAY 19^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

1^ST READING: EZEKIEL 12:1-12

GOSPEL: MATTHEW 18:21, -19:1

THEME: DO NOT KILL THE SPIRIT OF FORGIVENESS.

The Lord got tired of the sins of the house of Israel and he was looking for any way possible to save them. He sent them many prophets but they did not heed to what they were saying. Now he is demonstrating what is to befall them but still they remained adamant. When he gets tired of all these things, destruction will follow. The Israelites we talk about is no more the Israelites of old but we that live in this generation.

In the gospel, Jesus gave us the mandate to forgive without ceasing but some do push people to the wall of killing the spirit of forgiveness in them just like the Israelites in the first reading. Think of the servant who was forgiven of the greater debt he owed, he went ahead to punish another who owed him without thinking about the grace he received and the consequences of the act. The forgiveness granted him was withdrawn immediately. The spirit of forgiveness towards him was killed by his own hands.

That we are bound to forgive is not a guarantee for us to continue to offend each other. God said we must forgive in other to be forgiven but we should also know that we are all human beings. If we remain adamant continuing to offend and provoke our neighbours or we behave like that wicked servant in the gospel, we may lose the chance of being forgiven if we do not make amend on time. As we expect others to forgive us when we sin against them, let us not also kill the spirit of forgiveness in them. Again, we are expected also to forgive as we expect forgiveness from others 7 times 70. Thanks.

WEDNESDAY 19TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

WEDNESDAY 19^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

1^ST READING: EZEKIEL 9:1-7; 10:18-22

GOSPEL: MATTHEW 18:15-20

THEME: THOSE WHO GATHER IN HIS NAME WILL BE GIVEN THE MARK.

After seeing all that he saw in the first reading, it was obvious to him that it is only those who refute evils that will receive the mark of salvation and those who will receive the mark will be saved.

In the gospel, at the last sentence of it, it is stated, where two or more gather in my name, I will be with them. The church is the community of the people of God and people of God should be those who refute evil no matter the situation at hand. It is not easy to refute it but it is not impossible. The words of the last sentence of the gospel should be our consolation. If we really gather in his name, we shall be given the mark of salvation.

The problem is that some of us do not gather in his name rather we gather for something else. We place Jesus or his church as a refugee camp or even as a secondary saviour. When we must have given reverence to other gods then we will remember that he said he will be with us when we gather in his name. uka obuleka Jesu. A woman who worshiped Ugwube (A Deity) in my place. She got converted, but each time she is faced with danger she shouts Ugwube, she was asked to be using Jesus instead of Ugwube. So, when next something happened to her, she shouted Ugwube obuleka Jesu that is Ugwube! I mean Jesus. She remembers Jesus when she must have shouted Ugwube. We should not forget his name for what so ever reason. We should strive to make sure that we do gather in his name in truth so that the mark that will save us from eternal damnation will be given to us. No one who has no mark will be saved, we should always work to get the mark. Exodus account can be an example for us, the departure of the Israelites (Exodus 12:13). Thanks.

TUESDAY 19TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B. By Tobe Eze

TUESDAY 19^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.

1^ST READING: EZEKIEL 2:8. 3:4

GOSPEL: MATTHEW 18:1-5. 10. 12-14

THEME: BE OPEN TO LIFE.

Ezekiel had not known what the scroll was before eating it, he ate it and noticed that it was as sweet as honey. Uwa bu ahia akpa. He was open to face what will come out of it and the result was very good.

In the gospel, Christ asks us to be like children who are always very much open to change in life. They do not have a rigid way of life that deprives them opportunity to change. Change in a child is always built on humility. If a child is humble, that child can adjust in any situation that he/she finds him/herself. But an arrogant child will like to maintain one even when it is causing more harm than good.

If we are humble, we will welcome changes in our situations. A lady was married to a family, her behaviour was not all that welcomed there, so she started adjusting to fit in into the family system for she knew that that will only solve the problem. It was born out of humility. If it were to be a proud one, she would have asked them to take her behaviour or leave it. We must learn how to be humble like children in order to accept situations and adjust to situations that come to us. Do not be too rigid or watertight. Be liberal to a reasonable extent. Pope Francis is a liberal Pope and we are benefiting from it. One who is not open will find it difficult to cope with life. C.P Varkey (SJ) said, “Accept what you cannot change and change what you can change”. And this can only be achieved by being open to life. Thanks.