Daily Gospel (2145)
October 04, 2022
Written by Joseph Zepeda
Gospel: Luke 10:38-42
As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he entered a village, and a woman
called Martha welcomed him to her house. She had a sister named Mary, who
sat down at the Lord’s feet to listen to his words. Martha, meanwhile, was busy
October 03, 2022
Written by Joseph Zepeda
Gospel: Luke 10:25-37
Then a teacher of the law came and began putting Jesus to the test. And he said,
“Master, what shall I do to receive eternal life?” Jesus replied, “What is written in
the law? How do you understand it?” The man answered, “It is written: You shall
October 02, 2022
Written by Joseph Zepeda
Gospel: Luke 17:5-10
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” And the Lord said, “If you have
faith, even the size of a mustard seed, you may say to this tree, ‘Be uprooted, and
plant yourself in the sea!’ and it will obey you.
October 01, 2022
Written by Joseph Zepeda
Gospel: Luke 10:17-24
The seventy-two disciples returned full of joy. They said, “Lord, even the demons
obeyed us when we called on your name.” Then Jesus replied, “I saw Satan fall
like lightning from heaven. You see, I have given you authority to trample on
September 30, 2022
Written by Joseph ZepedaGospel: Luke 10:13-16
Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! So many miracles have been
worked in you! If the same miracles had been performed in Tyre and Sidon,
September 29, 2022
Written by Joseph Zepeda
Gospel: John 1:47-51
When Jesus saw Nathanael coming, he said of him, “Here comes an Israelite, a true
one; there is nothing false in him.” Nathanael asked him, “How do you know me?”
And Jesus said to him, “Before Philip called you, you were under the fig tree, and
September 28, 2022
Written by Joseph ZepedaGospel: Luke 9:57-62
As they went on their way, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”
Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests; but the
September 27, 2022
Written by Joseph ZepedaGospel: Luke 9:51-56
As the time drew near when Jesus would be taken up to heaven, he made up his
mind to go to Jerusalem. He sent ahead of him some messengers, who entered a
September 26, 2022
Written by Joseph Zepeda
Gospel: Luke 9:46-50
One day, the disciples were arguing about which of them was the most important.
But Jesus knew their thoughts, so he took a little child and stood him by his side.
Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name,
welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me, welcomes the one who sent me. And listen: the one
who is found to be the least among you all, is the one who is the greatest.”
Then John spoke up, “Master, we saw someone who drives out demons by calling upon your
name, and we tried to forbid him, because he doesn’t follow you with us.” But Jesus said,
“Don’t forbid him. He who is not against you is for you.”
Reflect:
We can never understand a mystery on this side of life at least; we can only stand under
the mystery and live with it, with an attitude of awe and dynamic surrender. This is essentially
the lesson the book of Job offers us on the vexing problem of human suffering. One of the
classics in world literature and acclaimed by Alfred Lord Tennyson as “the greatest poem of
ancient and modern times,” the book of Job takes us through the deepening of faith of Job. In
today’s reading we find him with a certain equanimity and readymade catechetical answer at
the face of tragedies, an answer which is indicative more of rationalization than faith. (Don’t
we too live with such platitudes in life?) As we will see in the coming days, Job’s defenses
must and will crumble down and leave him utterly naked in soul before God, and he will,
at the end, arrive at the core of faith: wonder, awe, marvel, and
surrender to the Mystery.
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September 25, 2022
Written by Joseph Zepeda
Gospel: Luke 16:19-31
Once there was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and feasted every
day. At his gate lay Lazarus, a poor man covered with sores, who longed to eat just
the scraps falling from the rich man’s table. Even dogs used to come and lick his
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September 24, 2022
Written by Joseph Zepeda
Gospel: Luke 9:43b-45
But while all were amazed at everything Jesus did, he said to his disciples, “Listen,
and remember what I tell you now: The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of
men.” But the disciples didn’t understand this saying; something prevented them from
September 23, 2022
Written by Joseph ZepedaGospel: Luke 9:18-22One day, when Jesus was praying alone, not far from
his disciples, he asked them, “What do people say about me?” And they
answered, “Some say, that you are John the Baptist; others say, that you
September 22, 2022
Written by Joseph ZepedaGospel: Luke 9:7-9
King Herod heard of all this, and did not know what to think, for people said, “This
is John, raised from the dead.” Others believed that Elijah, or one of the ancient
September 21, 2022
Written by Joseph Zepeda
Gospel: Matthew 9:9-13
As Jesus moved on from there, he saw a man named Matthew, at his seat in the
custom-house; and he said to him, “Follow me!” And Matthew got up and followed
him. Now it happened, while Jesus was at table in Matthew’s house, many tax
