October 26, 2024 Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Daily Readings: Ephesians 4:7-16; Luke 13:1-9
Jesus sends a very strong message of the need for repentance in today’s Gospel. His call for repentance even comes with a threat: Repent or you will perish.
Why does Jesus want us to repent? The first reading tells us ‘so that we can live the truth in love we should grow in every way into Christ’.
If we do not live the truth, that is as children of God, we perish because we are not true to our identity. Apart from Christ, we are nothing. We get tossed by waves and swept along by every wind of teaching arising from human trickery. We fall into the from their cunning in the interests of deceitful scheming.
To repent then is to acknowledge Jesus and be united with Him in every way. Unity in faith with Jesus should propel us to align our will and actions to His will. We cannot say we believe if our actions show otherwise. We can’t be united in faith with Jesus if we are unforgiving, conceited, unmerciful and attached to worldly matters.
Call to Action for Catholic Living: To repent is to nurture a forgiving heart, to be generous especially to those who have nothing to give us back, to be merciful and kind, and to live always in the grace of God through our sincere reception of the Sacraments.
Radio Veritas Asia (RVA), a media platform of the Catholic Church, aims to share Christ. RVA started in 1969 as a continental Catholic radio station to serve Asian countries in their respective local language, thus earning the tag “the Voice of Asian Christianity.” Responding to the emerging context, RVA embraced media platforms to connect with the global Asian audience via its 21 language websites and various social media platforms.
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