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Sunday, October 14, 2018
October 14, 2018
WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE
Mark 10: 17-30


I’m studying the Thai Language. Every day I have something to do with this study: the homework, reading, writing, and many others things. Sometimes, I feel good, I am very happy, for instance when the teacher said, "Ooww you are very good," after seeing my homework. But, sometimes, I feel down, I am sad. Anyway, every day I have to face these things. And, little by little arrive many plans in my head: like I must know this language, I must write in Thai, I must read very well in Thai. Shortly, I have many purposes for what I must do with the Thai language. But, many times I feel in failure. I wanted to read in Thai but I don’t know the Thai characters, the Thai alphabet. I want to write in Thai but I don’t know how to make the sentence with the Thai alphabet.

Today’s Gospel tells about almost the same thing. There is a young rich man who wants to know the way to eternal life. He asks this to Jesus. Jesus in that point doesn’t answer his question, about the way to eternal life. Jesus gives him the way to love each other. All the things that Jesus asks to him are about the relationship with the other, not the relation with God. Don’t kill, don’t commit adultery, don’t bear false witness, honour your father and your mother. It means that the way to eternal life is loving each other. No other way. 

Sometimes, we think the great things about our Lord but we forgot that God is present in simple people. We think that only the rich people can praise and glorify the Lord because they have money to make the pilgrimage to the holy land. We forgot that if we help the poor people around us, we make the pilgrimage to eternal life. 

Jesus doesn’t hate the rich people or poor people. Jesus hates the rich and the poor people who have a rich mentality, who wants to collect and collect much money, and doesn’t want to share with the other. Not only the rich people but also the poor people have a rich mentality, who continue to have more and more. The rich according to Jesus is someone who shares his own things with the other. Many you share many you get, and you feel very rich.

In this Eucharist, let us pray to the Lord so that all of us have a poor mentality poor in Christ so that we can help and love each other, find the face of our Lord in the face of the other. 

Happy Sunday
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Saturday, October 13, 2018
October 13, 2018
BLESSED THE WOMB
Luke 11: 27-28


Many times, I see the mothers who are very happy telling the success story of their children. “My son has a job now, thanks be to God.” This is only one of the many stories. For the rich people, this kind of story perhaps not so great to be proud. But, it is different if the poor family tells it.

Success is the source of joy for the mothers. In today’s Gospel, someone greets the mother of Jesus. “Blessed the womb that bore you….” This greeting means that Jesus is a good son. He makes his mother full of joy.

The joy for Jesus is more than this. Jesus stress on those who listen to the Word of God and observes it. This is another joy that more deeply than the first. We know that Mary, mother of God, is one who completes these things. She is an example for all the Christians.

Let us pray with her particularly in this period, dedicated as a rosary month.

Happy weekend. 
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Friday, October 12, 2018
October 12, 2018
BASED ON OPINION
Luke 11: 15-26


Yesterday afternoon, for the first time, I spoke with one Russian worker who serves in our house. Usually, I just greet him in English when we are facing because I don’t know if he speaks Thai or English. After introducing himself, he suddenly asked me, “Do you like Donald Trump?” I told Him that I don’t have many interests to know Trump. He replied that I can know him by listening to the radio news or television. And, I said that I don’t read many things about Donald Trump and I don’t watch TV or listen to the radio. 

Shortly, I told him that I don’t like Trump only about his choice for the immigrant people in the USA. I was very sad listening about the Mexican children who were separated from their family because their parents had a problem with their documents. Other things about him, I don’t know. He told me that he doesn’t like Trump because he makes the rich people become very rich and the poor become very poor. He listened to it from his friends.

Today’s Gospel shows us about the power of Jesus won against the Satan. His power is very powerful than the power of Satan. Even Jesus won, many people asked Him about his power. Some of them judged Him that He won against the Satan with the power of Beelzebul. If Jesus uses the power of Satan how come He make fall the Satan?

Their judgment doesn’t have a strong argument. We can say that this judgment based only on the listening and not on the experiencing about it. We can not make like this. If we want to speak about Jesus, we must have a relation with Him. We can not tell many things about Jesus by giving the information that we receive from the other people. I believe, in this case, we can share the outcome of our relation with Him.
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