“LEAVE HER ALONE. LET HER KEEP THIS FOR THE DAY OF MY BURIAL. YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE POOR WITH YOU, BUT YOU DO NOT ALWAYS HAVE ME.” JN 12:1-11
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Mary, Martha, and Lazarus are Jesus’s best friends. Jesus decides to spend some of His last days with those closest to Him while on earth. During this Holy Week, take time to read the Passion again and find a book that explains it. It is wise also to read about what happened to a victim of Roman crucifixion, so we can see what Christ endured for our sins. Jesus, the God Man is about to leave this earth and fulfill His mission of dying for our sins and most importantly resurrecting. Before our death, we will want to leave our best advice behind to our family members. Jesus is no exception. Some of His greatest teachings come from Holy Week and His family is all of humanity.
His Words are very important and should be taken to heart. Write them down and keep them some place to reread throughout the year, not just Lent. Fast every Friday throughout the year to remember this Holy Week, especially Good Friday (This is required for all Catholics, not optional). Do the Stations of the Cross with great devotion every Friday throughout the year to remember Christ’s Passion and Death. Go to Mass every Sunday, it is a mini-Easter to remember Christ’s resurrection. Go to Mass every day if possible to allow God to bring you back to the foot of the Cross; what was present in history is now present in mystery. Be transformed by Jesus in the Eucharist.
Find a book on the Passion of Christ and read it every Friday throughout the year. If you study and gain knowledge of Christ and His Passion, you will begin to understand His love for you. When you begin to understand His love for you, you will desire to love Him back more than anything in this world. Then, you will start fighting sin and desire a resolute heart. Your eyes will always be set on heaven and not things of the earth. You will desire to pray without ceasing. The saints were all transformed at the foot of the cross. Allow God to love you, it is His greatest desire. How do we know? He gave up His life for each of us, total self-sacrifice. We, in turn, give up our lives for others.
In Peter Kreeft’s book “Jesus Shock”, he talks about adoration. He uses today’s Gospel as defining adoration. Mary was a prostitute and had earned her money giving her body to men. She didn’t care as much about the acts, but the money so she could have more stuff. When she repents and follows Jesus, she recognizes “stuff” doesn’t matter. She gives up an entire year’s wages to buy the perfume she pours on Jesus. She adores Jesus with her whole self and holds nothing back with her material goods. At the sight of true adoration, Kreeft says Judas cannot take it. This is when the devil enters his heart and he goes to betray Jesus. When we see someone give themselves up totally and completely to do what they were made for, adore their God, we either follow or run. Jesus forces us to make a decision.
Are you really all in with Jesus? I have work to do, too. May we continue to strive to be more like Mary and give all! This Holy Week is a good time to commit, repent, and strive even harder.
Today’s challenge: Pray. Ask Jesus to reveal His heart to you during this Holy Week. Fast, suffer, offer your suffering up with Christ’s suffering, prepare for joy. Reread the Passion in the Scriptures each day this week and reflect on it, put yourself into the Passion with Christ. What is dominating your thoughts? Give it to Jesus this week and trust that He will take care of it.
Watch Fr. PJ Voegeli’s “Massercise” video to prepare yourself for a lot of Masses this Holy Week! https://youtu.be/0873IoUueCk
Be a servant, Become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
This is saying that if we are doing something good (like giving to the poor) but we are doing it for our own good, it is as if we were not doing any good in the eyes of God.
“LEAVE HER ALONE. LET HER KEEP THIS FOR THE DAY OF MY BURIAL. YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE POOR WITH YOU, BUT YOU DO NOT ALWAYS HAVE ME.” JN 12:1-11. Something that stood out to me about this was that Jesus is saying that his disciples will always help the poor, but he will not be helping them.
I think this scripture is just a big reminder to keep your devotion too Christ strong, like praying rosaries or doing the stations of the cross at home with family. Also reminding us to keep Jesus in our heart and learn to love like him.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is spending His last days with His best friends. Judas is greedy and wants Martha to sell the fragrance instead of anointing Jesus’s feet. Jesus told Judas that he will always have the poor with Him, but won’t have Jesus. I feel like in this story, Satan was trying to manipulate Martha through Judas. We need to try to keep Satan out, and focus on Jesus. We need to try to not be tempted by the devil, and if we aren’t tempted, Jesus will be right next to us through the whole thing.
“When we see someone give themselves up totally and completely to do what they were made for, adore their God, we either follow or run. Jesus forces us to make a decision.” This stood out to me because I never thought about it this way but it makes sense. Like, for example, if someone who is never Catholic sees someone doing demonic things they will either join in and start worshiping the wrong person/thing or not do anything because they do not know God and do not strive to live for him. But if someone who is Catholic was in this situation it would be morally right to try and stop them without violence.
Jesus says in the Gospel that we will not always have Him, but we will always have the poor. So when Mary, one of Jesus’ disciples, anointed him with extremely expensive perfume people then get a little mad( Judas). Judas says that they could have sold it and gave it to the poor but he was thinking only of stealing some of the money.
Jesus says that he will not always be with us, but the poor always will be. In another gospel Jesus says that whatever you do to they least of your neighbors you do unto me. Jesus might not always be here physically with us but he is with us through others.
“Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages
and given to the poor?” He said this not because he cared about the poor
but because he was a thief and held the money bag
and used to steal the contributions.”
This part stuck out to me the most due to it telling people that not everyone who seems like they care, actually cares. All Judas wanted was the money, the popularity from Jesus. But we should want none of that, we should want love, respect, ect from him. We shouldn’t be selfish, arrogant, ect. If you are maybe you just have the wrong people around you, the wrong friends. Friends shouldn’t push you to do anything you don’t want to do. Friends shouldn’t be fake, you shouldn’t be fake. You should care about others, and not your selfish desires. if you need help with that, go pray to God, he is and will always be there for you. Go talk to him. there is no excuse for you not to talk to him. He is always there to help, to listen, to talk. There is no excuse for acting like you are.
Lent is one of the hardest times of the year if you give up something that is taking you away from God. It is very hard to just give up something. but sometimes we forget and don’t ask God to help us in doing the right thing and fasting from it. God will always help us if we ask him to help us.
It was telling me to stop, and help someone if and when they need help!
So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” This really stuck out to me because it is very true. We always have the “poor” around us but really we should always have God with us. Being all in with Christ is so important. We should always strive to be closer to Him and make him apart of our everyday lives.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus visits Lazarus, Mary, and Martha. Mary anoints Jesus’s feet with expensive oil,but Judas scolds her for not giving it to the poor. But Jesus says it’s okay because He won’t be here long.
Jesus was extremely nervous in His last week before he was to be crucified because He knew all along that He was going to die. He was even sweating blood in the garden of Gethsemane, but in all of His suffering, He knew to look to God for help. This is how we should act when we find ourselves in a tough situation. Always trusting in God and His ultimate power is how we can live how God wanted us to.
Jesus says in the Gospel that we will not always have Him, but we will always have the poor. So when Mary, one of Jesus’ disciples, anointed him with extremely expensive perfume people then got a little mad( Judas). Judas says that they could have sold it and gave it to the poor but he was thinking only of stealing some of the money.
Today’s Gospel talks about how Mary anointed Jesus’ feet and dried them with her hair. This is an act of kindness and respect toward Jesus. Mary loved Jesus so she followed him, she believed in the Lord, so she followed him, and to thank him, she anointed Jesus’ feet.
Judas on the other side, wanted money. He wanted to steal the money that would have been used for the oil so he asked her why it was not sold. Jesus replied by telling him that she should keep it until Jesus’ burial. All Judas wanted was money, so that’s why he gave Jesus to the Romans, that’s why he betrayed Jesus.
Money can make people very greedy. That’s why St. Francis decided to live a life of poverty. His father was very greedy and rich and Francis decided he did not wanna be so he gave up his life to poverty.
Jesus defends Mary, saying the oil was meant for his burial day. He shows that this is a critical, singular moment, unlike the ongoing opportunity to care for the poor. It shows Jesus preparing for his burial, accepting adoration. Jesus is preparing for the day he is crucified. “Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial.
You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” This is foreshadowing that soon he will be gone.
In today’s scripture reading, It really stuck out to me because it says that Jesus would spend time with Lazarus, Mary, and Martha (His best friends) in his days before his death. Jesus died on the cross for you, he is about to leave this earth and fulfill his mission to save us from our sins and be able to resurrect from the dead. Before our death, we will want to leave our best advice behind our family members. He did this he gave his teachings as our advice to help us grow closer to him. His Words are very important and should be taken to heart. We have lent ourselves to receive Jesus on Easter. This is why we should fast, pray, give, go to stations of the cross, fast from meat on Fridays, and give something up for 40 days. Your eyes will always be set on heaven and not things of the earth. You will desire to pray without ceasing. This time helps us grow closer to the Lord and helps us to be able to realize that God is the most important thing in this world, not money, phones, and any other object that distracts us and pulls us away from the Lord because God is everything we need. Have a good rest of your day!!! God loves you he died for your sins and he will never stop loving you!!! God Bless!! Viva Cristo Rey!!!
In today’s Gospel, Mary of Bethany anointed Jesus’ feet with expensive perfume oil. The smell of the oil filled the house. Judas said it was a “waste” even though it really wasn’t. God defended Mary of Bethany because He knew that Judas was wrong and Mary was right to use the perfume oil. God showed His love to Mary and defended her. Jesus will always defend us no matter what as long as it is for a good reason.
What stood out to me was this “He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions.” Because I sometimes like to steal from the money bag to.
We need to try to not be tempted by the devil, and if we aren’t tempted, Jesus will be right next to us through the whole thing.He said that before he asscended he would spend time with those closest to him.Before our death, we will want to leave our best advice behind to our family members. Jesus is no exception. Some of His greatest teachings come from Holy Week and His family is all of humanity.His Words are very important and should be taken to heart.God loves us as we should love him
In today’s Gospel Jesus explained how they always have the poor to help and not him. So he’s saying to help the poor.
In today’s gospel, Jesus goes to Bethany where he raised Lazarus from the dead. Mary anoints Jesus with a good oil and Judas asks why. Jesus defends Mary and says that Mary was right for using the oil. The Jews started believing in Jesus and turned away from the chief priest.
In this Gospel Jesus is saying that he will not always be with us, so it is okay for Mary to use expensive oils on him because it is her way of praising him. We should praise and glorify Jesus because even though he is with us in our hearts he is not with us as a living being anymore. Jesus was human and this Gospel proved it because on his last days he is with his friends, enjoying the last bit of time he has with them.
Six days before Passover, Jesus visited his friend Lazarus in Bethany, where Mary honored him by pouring perfume on his feet. Judas complained that the oil should have been sold to help the poor, though he really just wanted the money for himself. Jesus defended Mary, telling everyone to let her be since she was preparing him for his coming burial. Meanwhile, a huge crowd gathered to see Jesus and Lazarus, leading the religious leaders to plot to kill Lazarus because so many people were starting to believe in Jesus.
Go to Mass every Sunday, it is a mini-Easter to remember Christ’s resurrection. Go to Mass every day if possible to allow God to bring you back to the foot of the Cross; what was present in history is now present in mystery. Make sure to go to mass every Sunday because if you do not go to mass you are sinning. And try to go to daily mass.And always remember that Jesus is present at mass so do not mess around and pay attention and learn new things about Jesus.
When Jesus got to the house of Lazuras, the one whom he had raised. Mary anointed Jesus’ feet with oil. Judas, Jesus’ betrayer asked, why didnt you sell this oil for 300 days waiges to the poor. Jesus told Judas to leave Mary alone. Then a large croud formed around them to see Jesus and the one whom he had raised from the dead, Lazuras. God Bless!
in the gospel Judas wanted her to sell the perfume so the could “give it to the poor” Which was not true he wanted the money for himself. Jesus knew that and didn’t get mad he just protected her and stood up for her. Jesus will do the same for any of us he stands up for us, protects us, and saves us.
The gospel said that Judas was questioning using the oil for Jesus’ feet. He never cared about giving to the poor and caring for them. He was questioning because he was greedy and wanted the money of a 300-day wage. Jesus stood up for Martha. He knows he will be gone soon and reminds them that He will not always be there with them.
In today’s gospel Jesus said “Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” We must put God before all else even the poor but we should also care for the poor because God comanded us to. If we care for the poor then we will have God forever in heaven but we also have to care for God when he is with us or we will not get to go to heaven.
Judas gets very angry about not selling the expensive oil and giving it to the poor, but he never cared about the poor he only cared about himself. He was angry because he wanted to steal some of the money for himself. Being selfish is human nature that we should all stay away from. Being selfish leaves us no room to help others. Being able to do something for others and seeing that it helped them is a different kind of joy than anything else. You can’t experience that joy by just doing things for yourself, so unlike Judas we should be selfless and give to others and help them.
In today’s Gospel when Jesus is spending time with Lazarus, Martha, and Mary. Mary anointed the feet of Jesus showing him love. But Judas criticized her saying that the oil was not right. Jesus stood up for her showing her the same love she was showing him. We should do the same and not take acts of love for granted.
I think today’s Gospel is teaching us that even though we know Jesus and love him, we still have room to grow, like turning our whole life around, stuff to no stuff, like Mary
Todays Gospel is telling me to help out the poor even when you dont want to he says we need to help the poor more than we need to help in because he has everything and the poor doesnt have anything.
“Then Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said, “Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages and given to the poor?” He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions.” Jesus then said to him, “Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” This shows that we need to put God first. When your in a situation and cant decide, put God first and think “What would God do”.
The part where Jesus told Judas that he should be grateful to be around him because he will always have the poor so then Judas should treat the poor kindly.
“You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” This quote reminds me of the mass. During the consecration there are so many things we could think about, but those things are always there and Jesus is not. Why would we ever think about something else during mass when we can gaze in awe at the God who has created all things.
Today, the Gospel told me how we can be like Judas, selfish. Judas wants to steal some of the money when the oil would be sold for himself. we can be selfish and greedy like him too, but Jesus defends Mary and tells Judas that the oil will be used for His burial. When Jesus raised Lazarus up, everyone believed in Jesus and turned away from the chief priest. Now, the chief priest wants to kill Lazarus.
“Let her keep this for the day of my burial.” Jesus Knew He was going to suffer and die but he let it happen.
I think what the Gospel was foreshadowing Jesus’ death saying “Let her keep this for the day of my burial. For you will always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
In today’s gospel, it is saying that if we are doing something for our own good, like money or fame, then it is useless in the eyes of God.
In today’s gospel God is telling me that why is the oil not sold for 300 days or wagered the oil. The oil was used on Jesus why not the poor. He said leave her alone if you have the poor you don’t have me.
to daywe hear how Judi’s was greedy and selfish and how humbil Mary actsin this gospil we should act as mary and not as Judis.
In today’s gospel it says “I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand; I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, To open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.” this stuck out to me because before we were even coseved God had called us by name and made what we look like and how we love.
what I got out of this gospel today was that Jesus is getting his feet washed by a woman and she is using oil. Jesus’ disciples say to him why can this oil not be sold for money and Jesus said to leave her alone and said the poor would be with you for ever but that he will not be with you forever.
Try going to mass every day, especially on Sundays. Try to fast every Friday to remember Holy week. Pick up a book about What he had to suffer through or any book about the Eucharist so will better understand him and how much he loves you and that knowledge will make you want to love him back even more.
in today’s Gospel Mary buys an expensive perfume and uses her hair to anoint Jesus’feet. Judas immediately is enraged spouting about how many people they could help with the money spent on buying this perfume. Jesus responds by telling us that we will always have the poor, but we will not always have him. this is a very meaningful story in the catholic faith, because it foreshadows Jesus’ death on good Friday.
In the Gospel today Martha washed Jesus’ feet with oil and dried them with her hair. this shows that we should always be kind to others and it shows that Martha would become the lowest of the low for Jesus.
You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” What this means to me is that God will go up to eternal life and he wants us to serve the poor because we are all God’s children. We must be humble servants when doing so and do it with humility .
Some of His greatest teachings come from Holy Week and His family is all of humanity. We can His teachings and learn from it. If we just have a talk with Him and ask him what to do in our life to do better. He will answer and give his fullest opinion and help with everything.
“When we see someone give themselves up totally and completely to do what they were made for, adore their God, we either follow or run.” We need to put ourselves in the best position to completely and totally love God. We should surround ourselves with people that bring us towards God. When we wonder off we start to lose track of ourselves. God knows us and loves us completely.
What I got out of todays gospel wad that we need to spend more time with God. We may not always feel like he is with us but He is. He is there for us but he also makes us learn and make choices on our own. We go through life just going through the motions of our faith when really thats the most important part.
what I think the lord is trying to tell me is that some people will see the worth of an item not for its values as a thing or person but for how much it should sold for the better for your self. We should try and not be like this like focusing in worldly thing but the true things that will lead us to heaven.
In today’s Gospel, I think Jesus is trying to tell me that we should put serving Him first. He should be our main goal to serve Him and to do His will because He is the one who saved. Not just that but also because He loves and us and if we serve Him we will receive many graces from Him and He will fill us with love.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus goes to Bethany to have dinner with Lazarus. While he’s there, Judas is there too. Sometimes I feel like we can act like Judas. Sometimes we feel like Jesus and God aren’t really doing us any favors, so we feel like its the right idea to turn our backs to him, when in reality, it’s the opposite. We need to move CLOSER to Jesus. We need to keep our backs turned TOWARDS him so that we can hear him call our name.
In today’s gospel Jesus predicts his death once again. He also tells Judas that he will not always have him always. Its telling me that we will always have time to care for the poor but we won’t have forever to live life like God intended. Life starts and ends so choose to side with God and not Satan
Today martha she did was the correct thing to do she washed jesus feet and was with him she loved and adored him because he is God She did what we should all do. also something that stuck out was The large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there and came, not only because of him, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too, because many of the Jews were turning away and believing in Jesus because of him. We all have to believe in Jesus
This Gospel tells me to prioritize Jesus. We have to put Him over everything even the poor. It tells us to always take care of Jesus like we would the poor and to always love Him.
I feel like what I was spoken to when I read this is that Jesus died for us and we should realize what he did for us and what he had to go through for us and yet we kinda forget about or like we have heard it so much it has almost like lost its meaning but I feel like what I was told when I was reading this is that we should pay attention and realize what he did for us and keep it in our life when we are doing everyday things. Another thing I was told is that we should fast every Friday for him dying on the cross so we can keep Jesus in our life and make sure he is in our life and not forget him so we can remind ourselves that Jesus is in our life and that he loves us and died for us.
“Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.“Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” This stuck out to me because Judas was so focused on how the money could have been given to the poor he wasn’t able to see the purity and sincerity in her adoration of Jesus. I feel as if this happens often in present day as well.
In today’s gospel, the message I got was that I should have a resolute heart set on God. We can do this by giving up ourselves for others just how Jesus gave himself up for all of us.
This Gospel is reminding me to keep a strong relationship with Jesus and God we must not be greedy like Judas in the Gospel but we must stay devoted to God and his teachings cause if we follow the way of Him we will be granted eternal life with the Father.
What I got out of today’s Gospel is that we must prepare for holy week. We must be like Mary in the Gospel where she cleans Jesus feet and anoints them and that shows we must be like her and fall to Jesus and give him our life.
This Gospel is telling me that we need to cherish the time we have because unlike Jesus we don’t know when we will die and even though that can be scary we should let it bring us closer to God and come to peace with it.
Today, this scripture tells us we should go to church and celebrate Christ. His words are important and should be taken to heart. He is our Savior who loves us. We should love us like he does love us. But some of us dont. To prove his love and take all of the sins on his shoulders, he took up the cross.
In today’s gospel it talks about the God man having a mission, for us and it being dying for our sins. Some of God’s best reading are during holy week and we need to take holy week serious and to heart.
Today in the Gospel Jesus tells us that even though the poor are in great need, God still comes first. No matter what, our top priority should be Jesus, who died to save us from our sins.
Todays Gospel tells us that although we always have Jesus, we also have others and we can depend and grow with them. We should always have pure intentions in everything that we do and we should stick with a good crowd. We should surround ourselves with good influences.
Today in the Gospel, I feel like it tells us to care for the poor, and by caring for the poor we will enter his kingdom. Put others before you and care for the poor. “You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
“You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” I think this is telling us to treasure what we have becuase time is always going on and me cant stop it. So we need to enjoy life right now hoow it is and not be ungrateful because we are just lucky to be living.
“You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
This part stood out to me, I think because it’s kind of like Jesus telling us that we will always have little things like money to distract us from the greater good. We however, will not always “have” Jesus if we lose our way. Sure, He is always there for you but it takes a lot more struggle to get back to something good than it does to lose it. We often put little things in front of God and our religion, whether you were planning on prayer but then your friend invited you out and you lost track of time talking to them on the phone hours before you needed to leave, or your favorite singer released a new album and you were about to head to Mass but decided to go later when you know you’ll be tired and disassociating throughout the Gospel. It’s just the little things like this that takes away our want to pray when you fill your mind with hours of other things to do.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus goes to Bethany to visit Lazarus. He gets anointed with costly oil. Judas says that the oil should be for the poor, as a cover up of his betrayal. Jesus then says to leave her alone and to let her keep it for His burial. Then a lot of Jews show up for not only him, but also Lazarus.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells Judas that the oil that Mary anointed his feet with shall be used to be buried with him. He also said that “You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.” There will always be people struggling and in poverty and there is no way to stop it unless we help them. We also will not always have Jesus here on earth with us, so we should cherish every moment we get with him when he comes to save us.
In today’s gospel Jesus is telling us that the poor represent Christ. We never have to physically care for Jesus, but we must care for those who are needy because when we help them we help Christ. The message of “Whatever you do to the least of my people, that you do unto me.” MT 25:40 from the judgement of nations recurs in this passage. Jesus will be in heaven therefore we cannot anoint his feet right now. Instead, we can care for those in this world, show our love to all those around us not just the poor but ALL of our neighbors.
What this Gospel is telling me today is to spend time with God and thank him for all He has done. Jesus foreshadows that He will pass from Earth and is spending time with his best friends. His death saved us from sin and evil. Adoration builds a great connection between you and God. He is always here with us. How can you go to a place that you barely know? Prayer and adoration help us discover not only was God is to us, but what we are to God and that sends us forth into the world.
What stuck out was when Jesus said you wont always have me but you will have the poor. Judas only cares about the money and tries to make himself look good like he was going to help the poor with that. We can’t hide ourselves and make it look good because God knows. He could help people without the money. So Jesus kind of throws his words back at him you will always have the poor you don’t need this fragrance.
“LEAVE HER ALONE. LET HER KEEP THIS FOR THE DAY OF MY BURIAL. YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE POOR WITH YOU, BUT YOU DO NOT ALWAYS HAVE ME.” What that mean is we may always focus on the worldly thing and not Jesus who created us and died for our sins
This Gospel told me that I need to have a more serious relationship with God and devout myself to his teachings. He has done so much for us and all He asks is to spread His word and sacrifice an hour of our time each week on the sabbath to worship Him.
Today I feel Jesus is telling us that we shouldnt be afraid to sacrifice what we think is important for others. We should be like Mary and give up what we value for Jesus in the same way he did by giving his life for us.
Today, the gospel told me how we can be like Judas, selfish. Judas wants to steal some of the money when the oil would be sold for himself. we can be selfish and greedy like him too, but Jesus defends Mary and tells Judas that the oil will be used for His burial. When Jesus raised Lazarus up, everyone believed in Jesus and turned away from the chief priest. Now, the chief priest wants to kill Lazarus
In the gospel it says that Martha washed Jesus’s feet, and dried them with her hair. This shows how we should help others in need and do the right thing. But even if the poor are in need, we have to put God and Jesus first before anyone else.
In today’s Gospel I think God is telling me that we should spend more time with God in prayer this Holy Week. That I need to give up some of my free time to talk to God in peace. So I can be ready for his resurection.
in today’s gospel a poor woman is anointing Jesus’ feet with oil. That oil could have helped her get out of poverty but instead she chose to use it on our Lord. this shows how much of a devotion she has to Jesus and she sets an example for us. we must learn to worship God like she does and give up the fine things in our life.
I think in todays Gospel that when people did not beleive Jesus he wasnt mad or didnt argue. Then later everyone started to belive Jesus we need to follow Jesus.
what I got from todays gospel was a reference in my head. other people may do things for God and give charity to others and we may sit back and say “well why didn’t you do this?”, “why didn’t you do that” and we may act as if we care about those things but we do not. still God says to us “leave them alone, you will always have ____ but you will not always have me” that’s important because it goes back to our morals of Jesus being our creator and how he should be the center of our life. #christianYODO
this gospel made me think about how judas valued money over everything, even jesus. he allowed hte money to corrupt him and make way for the devil to knock on his door. we want to be like mary and give everything for jesus. she paid 300 coins for that oil just to use it to clean jesus’s feet.
“Leave her alone.
Let her keep this for the day of my burial.
You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
That stood out to me because they wont always have Jesus to help and teach them but the poor will always be there. We need to prioritize Jesus over the poor.
What I took from today’s gospel is that we should be tempted by the devil and should try our best to follow God in all ways possible. What I also took from the gospel is that you should not betray our friends or family or God. You should always stay true to your friends, family, and to God.
Jesus is more than anything in the world we need to trusure jesus with our life’s with our souls we need to devout our lives to him not worldly things sure we all make mistakes we all sin sometimes I play too minecraft or Minecraft dungeons or Minecraft Legends
but we need to detach our selves to these things that cause us to turn away from God we need to be holy and without blemish especialy on holy week I don’t think Jesus came for us to say we have better things to do and all you do is play games on your phone he will forgive you if you trust and believe in the power of his name rejoice in him that we can be with the father 1 day and be the LIGHT OF THE WORLD!!!
In the gospel today, Mary anointed Jesus’s feet with oil. When Judas made fun of her Jesus stood up for her.
“You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me”. This stook out to me because Jesus is saying that sure you might be doing a good thing but you dont really care for these people and you are just going through the motions. Something ele that stook out to me is this “The large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there and came, not only because of him, but also to see Lazarus”. This stook out to me because it showed that the Jews were believing in the works of Jesus.
The part of this Gospel that stuck out to me was when it says, “and Martha served.” The reason this stuck out to me was that it is a simple part of the Gospel that is easy to over look, but it is like when people help us and we may over look it. If we do spend time to notice it can make our day.
The gospel today tells us the poor represent Christ. We don’t have to take care of Christ physically because we do that through helping the needy, poor, homeless.
Martha believes that Jesus is so special and cares so much that she uses very expensive oil to annoint his feet and she uses her own hair to dry them. Judas is focused on the money more than the act.
Holy week rmeinds me that Jesus calls us to be fully present with him, just as he was with his best friends.
Judas was only focused on the money and tried to make it seem like he was helping the poor. We can’t pretend or make ourselves look good because God sees the truth. Jesus points out that the poor will always be around, but this special act of love was different
This gospel talks about total adoration through the story of Mary and her sacrifice for Jesus, contrasting it with Judas’s reaction.