The Gospel For You, Malhacan (2025)

31/07/2025

📖 Today's Gospel

Matthew 13:47–53

Jesus said to his disciples:

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a net cast into the sea 🌊, gathering fish of every kind 🐟🐠.
When it is full, fishermen draw it ashore 🛶; then they sit down and sort the fish:
🧺 the good are kept in baskets, ❌ the bad are thrown away.

That will be the end of the age: the angels 👼 will come forth and separate the wicked from the righteous,
casting them into the blazing furnace 🔥,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth 😢😬.

Jesus asked them, ‘Have you understood all these things?’
They answered, ‘Yes.’

He said to them,
“Then every scribe who becomes a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a householder 🏠 who brings out of his store both the new and the old 📜✨.”

✨ Reflection Highlights
🔹 The Kingdom of Heaven is like a net—open to all, but calls for discernment and faithful living.
🔹 At the end of time, God will separate the faithful from the unfaithful—a powerful image of judgment and mercy.
🔹 True discipleship is more than hearing; it means understanding and living out Christ’s teachings, both ancient and new.

🙏 Today we honor Saint Ignatius of Loyola, who lived a life of deep discernment, spiritual courage, and commitment to “Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam”—to the greater glory of God.

30/07/2025

📖 Today's Gospel

Matthew 13:44–46

Jesus said to His disciples:

“The kingdom of heaven 👑 is like a treasure 💎 hidden in a field 🌾, which a person finds and hides again.
Out of joy 😊 he goes and sells all that he has 💰 and buys that field.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant 🧍‍♂️ searching for fine pearls 🐚;
when he finds one of great value ✨, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it.”

✨ Reflection Highlights
🔸 The Kingdom of Heaven is portrayed as both a hidden treasure 💰 and a priceless pearl 🐚—something worth sacrificing everything for.
🔸 The responses are filled with joy 😄 and total commitment 🙌: finding, hiding, selling all, and possessing.
🔸 This Gospel invites us to reflect:
What do we truly value?
Is Jesus and His kingdom worth everything we hold dear? ❤️👑

29/07/2025

📖 Today's Gospel

John 11:19–27

Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. 🕊️
When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet Him; but Mary remained at home.
Martha said to Jesus,
“Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 💔
But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.” 🙏
Jesus said to her,
“Your brother will rise again.” 🌅
Martha replied,

“I know he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.” ⛅
Jesus told her,
“I am the resurrection and the life; ✝️
whoever believes in me, even if they die, will live, 🌿
and anyone who lives and believes in me will never die. 💫
Do you believe this?”
She answered,
“Yes, Lord. I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God,
the one who is coming into the world.” ✨

🪷 Reflection Highlights
🌸 Jesus meets Martha in her grief with a promise of resurrection and eternal life.
🌟 His powerful claim — “I am the resurrection and the life” — shows that faith in Him conquers death.
💖 Martha’s response — “Yes, Lord” — is a beautiful example of trust in the midst of sorrow.
🕊️ On this memorial of Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, we’re reminded that in Christ, death never has the final word.

27/07/2025

📖 Gospel – Luke 11:1–13
Jesus was praying in a certain place, and after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
He told them:

“When you pray, say:
‘Father, hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread,
and forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us.
And do not bring us to the time of trial.’”

And then He shared this:

“Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him at midnight, saying, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; for a friend of mine has arrived, and I have nothing to offer him.’
If he refuses at first, because his children are asleep, he will get up and give whatever he needs because of persistence.

So I say to you: Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake? Or if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

📌 Context & Reflection Highlights

✝️ Jesus teaches the disciples to pray not just with words but from the heart—focused on God’s holiness, daily provision, forgiveness, and protection from temptation.

✝️ The parable of the persistent friend at midnight illustrates how prayer with persistence and trust opens divine doors.

✝️ The closing promise reveals that God’s generosity surpasses our imagination, giving not only what is needed but also the Holy Spirit when we ask.

25/07/2025

🕊️ Gospel Reflection – July 25 | Feast of Saint James the Apostle
📖 Matthew 20:20–28

The mother of James and John asked Jesus a bold question — for her sons to sit at His right and left in His Kingdom.
Jesus replied with compassion, yet truthfully:
“You do not know what you are asking… Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?”

He reminds us today that greatness in the Kingdom is not about power, position, or privilege…
It’s about service.
It’s about sacrifice.
It’s about following Christ — even to the cross.

💬 “The Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

🙏 Let’s ask for the heart of a servant today — just like St. James, who followed Jesus all the way to the end.

23/07/2025

📖 Today's Gospel

Matthew 13:1–9 (Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time)

That same day, Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lakeside.
Great multitudes gathered around him, so he got into a boat and sat down,
while all the people stood on the shore.

Then he spoke to them at length in parables, saying:
“A sower went out to sow.
As he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.
Some seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much earth;
they sprang up quickly, because they had no depth of soil.
But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away.
Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.
Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain,
some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirtyfold.

Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
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22/07/2025

📖 Today's Gospel

John 20:1–2, 11–18

**On the first day of the week**,
while it was still dark,
Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw the stone removed.
She ran to Simon Peter and the other disciple, saying,
“They have taken the Lord from the tomb,
and we don’t know where they put him.”

She stayed outside the tomb weeping.
Bending in, she saw two angels in white.
They asked, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
She replied, “They have taken my Lord…”
Turning, she saw Jesus but didn't recognize him.
He asked her,
“Woman, why are you weeping?
Whom are you looking for?”
Supposing him the gardener, she said,
“Sir, if you carried him away…”
Jesus said, “Mary!”
She answered, “Rabbouni!”—“Teacher.”

He said to her, “Do not cling to me…
go to my brothers
and tell them,
‘I am ascending to my Father
and your Father,
to my God and your God.’”

Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples,
“I have seen the Lord,”
and shared what he told her.

21/07/2025

Today's Gospel

Mark 6:30–34

The apostles gathered together with Jesus
and reported all they had done and taught.
He said to them,
“Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.”
People were coming and going in great numbers,
and they had no opportunity even to eat.
So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place.

People saw them leaving and many came to know about it.
They hastened there on foot from all the towns
and arrived at the place before them.

When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd,
his heart was moved with pity for them,
for they were like sheep without a shepherd;
and he began to teach them many things.

20/07/2025

Today's Gospel Reading

Matthew 12:1–8

Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath.
His disciples were hungry
and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him,
“See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.”

He said to them,
“Have you not read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry,
how he went into the house of God
and ate the bread of offering,
which neither he nor his companions
but only the priests could lawfully eat?
Or have you not read in the law
that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple
violate the sabbath and are innocent?

I say to you, something greater than the temple is here.
If you knew what this meant,
‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’
you would not have condemned these innocent men.
For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.”

19/07/2025

Today's Gospel

Matthew 12:1–8

Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath.
His disciples were hungry
and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them.
When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him,
“See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.”

He said to them,
“Have you not read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry,
how he went into the house of God
and ate the bread of offering,
which neither he nor his companions
but only the priests could lawfully eat?

Or have you not read in the law
that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple
violate the sabbath and are innocent?
I say to you, something greater than the temple is here.
If you knew what this meant,
‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’
you would not have condemned these innocent men.
For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.”

17/07/2025

Today's Gospel Reading

Matthew 11:25–27

At that time Jesus exclaimed:

“I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike.

Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father.
No one knows the Son except the Father,
and no one knows the Father except the Son
and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”

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