Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Luke 11: 47-54
October 16, 2025 | Thursday

Today’s Gospel

A curse is on you, for you build monuments to the prophets your ancestors killed. So you approve and agree with what your ancestors did. Is it not so? They got rid of the prophets, and you build monuments to them!

For that reason, the wisdom of God also said: I will send prophets and apostles and these people will kill and persecute some of them. But the present generation will have to answer for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was murdered between the altar and the Sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, the people of this time will have to answer for them all.

A curse is on you, teachers of the law, for you have taken the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you prevented others from entering.”

As Jesus left that place, the teachers of the law and the Pharisees began to harass him, asking him endless questions, setting traps to catch him in something he might say.

Today’s Reflection

In the Gospel for today, Jesus expresses his condemning message to the Pharisees and teachers of the law about the important matters of their practices and beliefs. This message is a wake-up call to prioritize the teachings of God rather than personal motives and gain. He points out the love of Pharisees and teachers of the law for status and human approval rather than humble service and justice for the people. This message calls for all of us to examine our motives in life to seek God’s approval rather than seek glory from another person.

/Vulnerasti, 2025