Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Luke 13: 1-9
October 25, 2025 | Saturday

Today’s Gospel

One day, some people told Jesus what had occurred in the temple: Pilate had had Galileans killed, and their blood mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. Jesus asked them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered this? No, I tell you. But unless you change your ways, you will all perish, as they did.

And those eighteen persons in Siloah, who were crushed when the tower fell, do you think they were more guilty than all the others in Jerusalem? I tell you: no. But unless you change your ways, you will all perish, as they did.”

And Jesus continued, “A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it, but found none. Then he said to the gardener, ‘Look here, for three years now I have been looking for figs on this tree, and I have found none. Cut it down, why should it continue to deplete the soil?’ The gardener replied, ‘Leave it one more year, so that I may dig around it and add some fertilizer; perhaps it will bear fruit from now on. But if it doesn’t, you can cut it down.’”

Today’s Reflection

In our Gospel for today, Jesus responds about the two tragic events: Pilate’s brutal killings of the Galileans and the collapse of the tower of Siloam, where eighteen people died. Jesus changed the mindset of the people that such events are punishments from God because of their sins. Jesus corrects this mindset that calamities and tragedies are not necessarily the result of their sins but the reality of the impending tragedy of life. And Christ reminds us to repent and remain faithful because death will always come unexpectedly.

/Vulnerasti, 2025