Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Mt 13: 47-53
July 28, 2022 |Thursday

Today’s Gospel

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a big fishing net, let down into the sea, in which every kind of fish has been caught. When the net is full, it is dragged ashore. Then they sit down and gather the good fish into buckets, but throw the bad away. That is how it will be at the end of time; the angels will go out to separate the wicked from the just, and to throw the wicked into the blazing furnace, where they will weep and gnash their teeth.” Jesus asked, “Have you understood all these things?” “Yes,” they answered. So he said to them, “Therefore, every teacher of the law, who becomes a disciple of the kingdom of heaven, is like a householder, who can produce from his store things both new and old.” When Jesus had finished these parables, he left that place.

Today’s Reflection:

The proclamation of the Kingdom is for all walks of life throughout the world. It is not exclusive and selective just like the net used in the parable which does not discriminate and catches all kinds of fish. This was also the mission of the disciples when they were called to be “fishers of men”. They were commissioned to bring the message of the Kingdom to everyone and the whole world. There will be those who will accept and believe in their preaching and those who will not. But in the end, God will be the one who will do the sorting of the catch. /Vulnerasti, 2022