Tuesday, July 6, 2021

14th Week, Ordinary Time, Wednesday, 07-07-2021

Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7, 17-24 / Matthew 10:1-7    

Every family has a couple or more members who will dance to a different tune or have a different view to life.

Whatever it might be, family is still family and blood is thicker than water, and it is necessary to accept each other as they are.

And since charity begins at home, then it goes without saying that family is where charity must begin.

When Jesus summoned His disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits with power to cast them out and to cure all kinds of diseases and sickness, He also told them this:

He instructed them not to go to pagan territory but to go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel and to proclaim that the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.

So it was to their own people that they have to proclaim the Good News of salvation.

They may face rejection and persecution from their own people but if charity begins at home, then ministry will have to be to their own kind first.

As for us, may charity, and even ministry, begin at home and with our family. 

And may Jesus also fill us with love to accept and understand our family members even if they dance to a different tune and see things differently.