Wednesday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time
Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Lk 13:22-30
October 26, 2022 | Wednesday
Jesus went through towns and villages teaching, and making his wayto Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, is it true that few people will be saved?”
And Jesus answered, “Do your best to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. When once the master of the house has gone inside and locked the door, you will stand outside. Then you will knock at the door, calling, ‘Lord, open to us!’ But he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’
Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets!’But he will reply, ‘I don’t know where you come from. Away from me, all you workers of evil.’
You will weep and grind your teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves left outside. Others will sit at table in the kingdom of God, people coming from east and west, from north and south. Some who are among the last, will be first; and some who are among the first, will be last!”
Today’s Reflection:
Those who want to be saved should undergo a lot of challenges. For one, the door is so narrow that only a few can enter (v. 24). Desiring to achieve the promise of Jesus, early Christians gave up even their own lives in Christ’s name. Their persecution paved the way for the proliferation of the Christian faith. Our circumstances might be different from theirs but the same calling is given to us as followers of Jesus – to enter into the narrow door of heaven. While in the past, they exerted effort to proclaim Jesus as the true Messiah, the challenge for the present followers is to proclaim Jesus through their actions. In the past, the believers’ adversary was the “outsiders;” today the challenges are our fellow believers and our own self. Questions such as: “how do you live out what you proclaim?” and “what is your motivation for proclaiming?” guide us in doing our Christian tasks. These make the door narrow because we are to die for our own selves. /Vulnerasti, 2022
