The Divine Word

ilNov  “No one can serve two masters….You cannot Serve god and money…” Dear Brothers and sister in Christ Jesus, the reading of the day especially the gospel is very thought provoking. We come across an interesting debate here about wealth. (Lk 16, 9-15 &  Rom 16, 3-9, 22-27)                  In the Context of the gospel, in the context of the Luckan Community we do understand that wealth brought about a kind of a division or discrimination between rich and the poor between HAVE’s and HAVE NOT’s. Thus there was rapture in relationship between people.                    The first tanza of the Popular Kannada hymn -  Preethisu nee maanava – goes like this – Kannige kaanuva narana preethisade, kaanada aa devara nee hege preethisuve? – If you cannot love fellow human whom you can see, how can you love God who is invisible? This implies rapture in relationship between God and people also led to the rapture in relationship between God and his people.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus the reading and the liturgy of the day speaks of a compassionate and a merciful God who is madly in love with his people. Rom 14: 7-12 Lk 15 1-10             Indeed Ch 15 of Luke from where today’s gospel reading is chosen portrays God’s love and mercy.             Don’t the two parables- the parable of the lost sheep and the lost coin sound quite illogical, where a shepherd leaves 99 of his sheep in search of one lost sheep or a woman makes the house upside down in search of a lost coin?