Category: Eleventh Week

⏰Saturday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time 2 (18 June 2016) 📖2 Chron 24:17-25; Ps 89:4-5, 29-30, 31-32, 33-34 (R.v.29a); Matt 6:24-34 Who would have imagined that King Joash, who received much protection from the house of God when his life was under threat by the wicked Queen Athaliah (cf. 2 Kings 11:1-20) would one day turn against God and the household of the same priest, Jehoiada that protected him? This happened because of the bad counsel from the princes of Judah (cf. 2 Chron 24:17). Who are your friends? While you are making effort to be successful, materially...

⏰Friday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time 2 (22 June 2018) 📖2 Kgs 11:1-4, 9-18, 20; Ps 132:11, 12, 13-14, 17-18 (R.v.13); Matt 6:19-23 After her mother terrorised the Northern Kingdom of Israel with her evils and false religion, Athaliah the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel tried to ply her mother’s kind of business in Judah, the kingdom of David. He tried to challenge God by making sure his promise to David, that his dynasty would last forever is not fulfilled. But God cannot be challenged because all authority belong to him. Read that story and see for yourself....

⏰Wednesday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time 2 (20 June 2018) 📖2 Kgs 2:1, 6-14; Ps 31:20, 21, 24 (R.v.25); Matt 6:1-6, 16-18 There is that popular saying credited to Thomas Jefferson that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Christians, as St Peter admonished in 1 Pet 5:8, must be eternally vigilant in order not to be outwitted by the devil and so miss out in the blessings of God. Before Elijah was taken away from Elisha, he told Elisha to ask for any favour of him (see 2 Kgs 2:1-14). Credit must be given to Elisha for...

⏰Tuesday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time 2 (19 June 2018) 📖1 Kgs 21:17-29; Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 11 and 16 (R.v.3a); Matt 5:43-48 The scripture noted that there is no one who did what God abhorred as much as Ahab (1 Kgs 21:25-26). As a consequence, God already passed a judgement of horrible annihilation upon him and his households (cf. 1 Kgs 21:17-24). Yet, when Ahab heard of the judgement, he humbled himself before God and so made God to defer his punishment till after his lifetime (1 Kgs 21:27-29). As an aside, we can immediately see from that...

⏰Monday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time 2 (18 June 2018) 📖1 Kgs 21:1-16; Ps 5:2-3, 5-6, 7 (R.v.2b); Matt 5:38-42 Check it out my dear, most sins we commit today are borne out of greed. Imagine! Ahab still wanted the little vineyard of Naboth because of this. Out of greed, he disobeyed the command of God (Deut 7:3) and married Jezebel, a Sidonian. That marriage introduced many ills into the culture and religion of Israel. Notice that Ahab was not keen to do any harm to Naboth but Jezebel did that in his name and thus added abuse...