21ST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B

DON’T TURN YOUR BACK ON ME

Yesterday, the Parish pastoral Coordinating Council of Medalla Melagrosa Parish, malipayon, pangantucan, Bukidnon had their monthly meeting. The council talks about the incoming fiesta celebration of the parish. In the meeting, we have been discussing about our expenxes for the said fiesta celebration. This is so because the does not have any money to support for the said celebration especially on financial matters. Without the help of the other chapels the said celebration is impossible to achieve. Fortunately, the members of the said council responded positively to the needs of the parish. It is so good that nobody turn their back, for the good of the church.

GREETINGS!

My dear friends, our gospel for this Sunday is the last discourse of Jesus to the people. Because of this story, many turned their back on Jesus. Many leave Jesus because of his words. What are these words? As what I have said this is the last discourse of Jesus in the Gospel of John about the bread of Life. Many of the followers of Jesus leave him because they cannot believe that Jesus is the bread of life. In other words Jesus has been rejected by his own followers.

Turning your back to other person is a form of rejection. This action may hurt other people especially to those who are involved in the discussion. Rejection is a form of disagreeing the idea or personality of a certain person. For example, simple neglecting! If you don’t like the other person, you don’t want to see him or even talk to him and you will always turn your back on him. 

However on the part of Jesus, people doesn’t like about his thoughts. They don’t agree with the idea that Jesus is the bread of Life.  Jesus asks those who were left, especially to his disciples: “do you want to leave me too?” Today, Jesus will also ask us, “Do you want to leave me too?”

One way of leaving Jesus is through sins committing sins towards other people and towards God is a form of turning away from God. Why? Because Jesus hates sin and doesn’t want us to sin. He doesn’t like if we will hurt our fellow human beings.

Jesus in our Gospel today wants us to understand the teaching of our faith so that we can live, act and participate on it. If we don’t understands the church, we mumble also like his other disciple and at the end leave the church.  Hindi sana ito mangyayari sa atin. Hope that we will do our share on propagating the message to all, especially those who leave the church of God.

Today, Jesus is trying to tell us: Don’t turn your back on me! Help me! Help me save souls! Help me that other people will know who I am!

 Don’t turn your back on me!