Catholic Social Intelgentsia

                       

 Jesus who walked on this earth 2000 years ago was an ambassador of truth. He spoke of a kingdom which is built on and ruled by love and justice. He used the spoken word and the contextualized examples and imageries as part of his effective communication. Revolutionary Jesus was ever ready to challenge the unjust structures and the false and dehumanizing practices. I believe no one ever in the history of humanity has befriended people as him. Obviously it cost him his life.

                     We Christians have a mandate to walk the path of Christ and to be a counter cultural and a contrast community. We, as religious have even greater responsibility, ‘to read the signs of the time and respond to them creatively’ (GS 4). Pope Francis, in his apostolic Exhortation recalling the Latin American theologians reminds us that ‘it’s not enough to say that we have been like this (EG 33), rather we need to move out of our churches, without waiting passively inside.’(EG 12)

Persevere and Be Hopeful

With Christ as the centre of your life, you will never be disappointed

                                                                                                                                     Pope Francis

The liturgy of the day invites us to be persons who are determined, persevering and hopeful.

Our life on earth is a journey; a journey to the house of the Lord. Contradictions and conflicts, ups and downs, struggle for a just living are part of this journey.

We heard about the widow who persevered before an unjust and a corrupt judge for she knew what she needed and HOW to get there. Even an unjust judge because of her perseverance and determination had to restore justice to her.

Kingdom of God - Homily Nov 12.

        We listen to a n interesting episode about the kingdom of God in the gospel today. Whether we accept it or not, quite often we are curious to know about the matters that are yet to come, or about the world to come or about the end of the world.

            In the gospel reading of today the Pharisees are enquiring about the timing of the coming of the Kingdom of God. Their question was – When but Jesus answers they- How will the kingdom come and how will the kingdom BE.

Faith Response - Homily Nov 11, 2015

                  Dear Brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus the liturgy of the day invites us to be people of Faith who are spontaneous and grateful. The gospel reading of the day begins with, Jesus on his way to Jerusalem, a destiny where he would fulfill the purpose of his life, a purpose for which he came as human.

(Wis 6, 1-11 & Lk 17, 11-17)

            On this journey meets a group of lepers who were desperate. Leprosy then as you know was the most feared disease and was believed to be the outcome of sin. They were banished as outcastes and lived outside the camp, alone. It was believed Leprosy could be cured by God and his power alone.

No One Can Serve Two Masters - Homily Nov 7

“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.

Call of a Merciful God : Homily Nov 5, 2015

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?