A short reflection on the reading from the Gospel of Saint Luke 17: 11-19.
HYMN / SONGS OF PRAISE
Jesus Christ, the good Shepherd,
You are the way of God's love,
Grant us a good life,
To
receive the blessings of God's love.
O Holy Spirit, source of God's love,
You are our Consolation when we are weak,
Help us follow God's message,
In
love and service to save God's people.
Blessed be Your name, O Jesus Christ,
With the Holy Spirit our Comforter and Holiness,
We glorify Your name, O Jesus Christ,
For You are our Lord and God. Amen.
My beloved brothers and sisters in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ,
My sharing is in the use of simple and easy to understand
language. I use this method so that those who are weak and do not have higher
education can understand the message and meaning of what is written here. I am
also the same as all of you, I don't have any advanced studies and only know
how to read the Catholic Bible, that's a simple understanding and the way of
the village people.
In reading the Gospel of Saint Luke, I realized something that
was easy but very important for me to re-examine what kind of spiritual life I
had. I say "easy" because
the questions given by Jesus were very easy for me to answer again because
certain experiences and events that had happened before made me happy in
prayer. But what we often do to each other is often ask a lot about other
people's things instead of looking at ourselves. We often hear the word
"maybe" when miracles and healing from God occur. The word “maybe” is used like this, “maybe God heard their prayers but not me.”
"Maybe that's their fate," or
"maybe that's the cross of their lives." So to respond to Jesus'
message in the Gospel of Saint Luke, it would be good for us to ask ourselves,
are we truly grateful and thankful to God rather than asking too many questions
about other people's stories. I want to take you all to see how Jesus wants to
speak to us through His Word. After we read this passage from the Gospel of St.
Luke, can we follow His teachings that follow after this?
Now it is good for us to ask ourselves, do we return to God to
thank and be grateful to Him every day after the Holy Mass is over? Do you and
I return to God and be faithful to Him after receiving the Sacraments of the
Catholic Church? Have any of us here also experienced healing from God but
after that often commit sins and no longer express gratitude to Him and glorify
God in our daily lives? I believe and am convinced that the answer that Jesus
wants to hear from us is from ourselves and not from other people's opinions. No
one else can bring us into Heaven but from our own words of faith (Gospel of Saint Luke 17: 19). That is
our personal prayer and that prayer is what comes from our hearts. The faith
and belief that Jesus wants from us is to become and imitate the Samaritan. If
we feel like we are in a group of "Nine
people", this means that we are the ones who make our own choices and
easily forget all the goodness and mercy of God (Gospel of Saint Luke 17: 17). I remind all of you that tomorrow we
will not be in good condition and safe. Return to God in prayer, reflect and
meditate every day, read the Catholic Bible every day, always make choices
based on faith and trust in God and instead of being afraid, negligent and
tempted by sin and worldly influences, do what Jesus has taught us all, and
better yet, always examine the way we live whether it is truly good and holy or
whether there are still sins in our lives (1
Thessalonians 5: 1-11).
In this way, we put Jesus in our lives even though we often
fall and rise. This is where we are able to realize how else we must do to
follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Improving ourselves brings us to the
process of forming the Catholic faith and recognizing who "I am, we are" and then raising our dignity as children
of God. This is what I summarize again, namely our life's calling as human
beings, our life's calling as Catholics, and so on our life's calling as
"Blessed and Saints". Pray to God that the "Nine people" will not go astray and leave Jesus Christ.
And if the "Nine people"
are among all of us, it would be good for us to renew our respective
commitments in service and prayer regarding our Mission and Vision. I also want
to ask all the members in the Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed and
Saints and the Nine Choirs of Angels), have you all become good servants and
shepherds like Jesus Christ? We are called and sent to seek and save souls so
that they can enter Heaven without sin and evil (Gospel of St. Luke 19: 10, Gospel of St. John 10: 10) (Gospel of St.
Luke 17: 11-19) (1 Thessalonians 5: 12-22).
Jonathan Fabian Ginunggil,
Most High Servant,
Jesus, Mary, Joseph Ministry of Love (Blessed and Saints and the Nine Choirs of
Angels)
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