28th sunday-thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING 

Two cannibals were enjoying thanksgiving dinner and they were just talking about family. Then one cannibal said, “You know what I can’t stand either my father in law or my mother in law”. 

The other cannibal said, “It's quite understandable. Then why don’t you try potato with the gravy”. 

Friends in Christ Jesus, 

Jesus is the Christ and it’s because of Him, great things happen to us. It’s because of Him, we find meaning and purpose in life and it’s only because of Him, the whole world looks so wonderful and more beautiful. Let’s thank God for sending Christ our Lord to be with us forever. 

One day, a woman looked out of her kitchen window and noticed her neighbor hanging out her laundry to dry. Then, she noticed that the whites looked so grey and the colored looked so dull. She said to her husband, “what a shame, that woman doesn’t even know ow to wash her cloths clean”. 

It went on for weeks and then one day, something changed. The whites sparkled in the sunlight and the colored clothes were so radiant. She then said to her husband, “This morning as I looked out of our kitchen window, I couldn't believe my own eyes. Our neighbor learned to do laundry well”. The husband said, “Well, it should. Just yesterday, I washed our kitchen window”. 

Sometimes we all ask ourselves, thinking, ‘Why should I thank God?” Nothing is going well. The world is a terrible place to live. If we read the newspaper or watch TV, all we hear is bad news and more bad news.  

But if we know how to keep our window clean, then we will look at things differently and thank God for everything that is happening around us.  

Our God is so, so good and He will never abandon us His children. In order to show His ultimate love, He sent His only Son our Lord Jesus Christ to be with us forever and anyone who believes in Him, will be given everlasting life. 

In today’s gospel, we meet with compassionate and kind Christ who immediately takes pity on those lepers and heals them right away. Then they all go away joyfully but one of them as he experienced completely healing comes back to thank and praise God. 

Yes, as we thank and praise Christ for everything that is happening to us, we will receive more happiness and joy. And though many were baptized and accepted into Church, you are here, and you are thanking Christ for all the great things happening to you.  

To the Samaritan, Jesus said, ‘Were not ten made clean but the other nine, Where are they? 

And was none of them found to return and thank God except this foreigner? 

Then Christ said to the Samaritan, get up and go on your way, your faith has made you well. 

That’s our Lord Jesus Christ says to you all who are here to thank Him, you who are here to praise and glorify Him, 

Get up and go on your way and your faith has made you well. God bless.