22nd sunday-B

22 Sunday in ordinary time 

Good evening/ morning everyone, on the other day, a man said, “Oh Father, you won my heart and after what I said, I don’t see him anymore. All I said was, “I don’t want your heart. Give me one of your kidneys”. 

Once Genie appeared to a man saying, “I am going to fulfill two of your wishes and ask for anything. The man got so excited and said, ‘I would like to have a million-dollar cash and an amazing, gentle, compassionate and kind woman”. And within a minute he a million-dollar cash and next to him was Mother Teresa. 

After death, Mother Teresa directly went to heaven and God said, “Are you hungry and when she said, “yes”. God opened a can of tuna fish and made her a nice tuna sandwich. As she was eating, she saw below down the hell, people were eating good gourmet food. This was going on for many days. Then one day, she said to God, “God, how come we are eating tuna sandwich and there in hell, people are enjoying gourmet food. God looked at her and said, “why cook, we just two of us here”. 

The Pharisees and the Scribes; the leaders and the elders; the Rabbis and everyday people came to our Lord Jesus Christ. Crowds and crowds of people were constantly coming to our Lord Jesus Christ. Where Christ our Lord went, there they also went. Where He was, there they were too. It’s because He showed the unconditional love and the unlimited forgiveness of God Almighty. It’s because, He healed the sick and raised so many to life; Christ did miracles and wonders among them and it’s because He showed the way to the Father saying, “No one can go to the Father except through Me. I am the way, the truth and the life”. 

Christ our Lord wants us all to be with Him forever. He does not want anyone of His followers, disciples, apostles and others to be perished or disappeared. He wants us all to have an immortal life, a life that has no end. 

That is why Christ our Lord revealed the secret to immortal life. He slowly began to reveal that unimaginable glory and eternal life.  

The Pharisees and the Scribes and others did not understand Him at all. Since they were so conditioned by human way of thinking and human way of doing things, it was not that easy for them to understand a life that would have no end. 

Christ then talked to them about their ancestors, the chosen people who were liberated from Egypt. As they came to through the sea to the desert, they gathered around Moses and began to praise and glorify God for their liberation, but it didn’t last for long. Soon they began to complain, grumble and go against God and Moses, saying, “If we were in Egypt, we might have some whips on our back, but our belly would be full and why did you bring us here to die. That is why they say, “It was easy for Moses to bring the people out of Egypt but not that easy to take Egypt out of Israel”. 

Jesus then give them the secret to immortality saying, “I am the living bread that comes down from heaven. And anyone who eats this bread will never die but have life that will never end” 

When people heard this, the first thing they said was, “This is so hard. It's very difficult teaching and who could follow it... and thus so many went away from Christ disappointed. But Christ who gave secret to eternal life and who opened a new way to paradise looked at His own apostles and said, “Do you also wish to go away from me....”  

After being with Christ, seeing His wonders and miracles and His promises and life, they said to Christ, “To whom can we go, you have the words of eternal life”. 

Conclusion: yes, Christ has the secret to eternal life and there is nothing out there. Everything comes from Him and ends in Him, so let us receive the living Christ the body of Christ and live with Him forever. Amen.