“Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.” LK 11:47-54
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
The Lord said:
“Woe to you who build the memorials of the prophets
whom your fathers killed.
Consequently, you bear witness and give consent
to the deeds of your ancestors,
for they killed them and you do the building.
Therefore, the wisdom of God said,
‘I will send to them prophets and Apostles;
some of them they will kill and persecute’
in order that this generation might be charged
with the blood of all the prophets
shed since the foundation of the world,
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah
who died between the altar and the temple building.
Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood!
Woe to you, scholars of the law!
You have taken away the key of knowledge.
You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.”
When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees
began to act with hostility toward him
and to interrogate him about many things,
for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say. LK 11:47-54
Today, Jesus presents the Pharisees as those who insidiously lead others astray through their seeming attention to the law. Often I find myself pointing out everyone else’s faults, but miss my own. I also can be really strict about holding other’s accountable to follow the rules, but don’t follow them myself sometimes. I believe all of us sometimes worry more about the law more than loving others. We all can make the mistake of being like the Pharisees.
The point Jesus is trying to make to the Pharisees is that they are missing the entire purpose of why God gave us life, to love. He is love straight through and this is what we will be surrounded with and filled up with in the spiritual realm, our heavenly homeland. We have been given an earthly body with a spirit, to love with our bodies, our actions and words. Our bodies are driven by the Spirit.
He made us to have compassion (suffer with) on others, to forgive, to take care of the less fortunate, and to love even if people don’t deserve it. This is what matters on judgment day, how much did you glorify the Father with your life. This in turn glorifies you and others see you as an other-Christ!
Today’s challenge: Don’t get too caught up in sin and rules, although these are important to keep order, the most important thing we can do is love, to give yourself away to another, a self-gift.
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YOLO
In this scripture, Jesus is saying that anybody who is leaving you astray will be persecuted and you will be found. Jesus loves you very much and wants to be in a personal relationship with you. He believes in you everyday and hopes that you will make it into heaven and live with Him forever.
I think he is trying to tell us to not interrogate people
The scripture said to me that Jesus made us have compassion on others. This stuck to me because we have to forgive and have to care for others. We have to love people even when they don’t deserve it.
‘The most important thing we can do is love’ This stuck out to me because of the Great Commandment You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,strength, and mind. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus loved us so much He died for us. So next time don’t do a chore because your mom told you to, do it out of love and respect for her.
Jesus is telling us to remember to think about the true law of God over the will of man.
“Woe to you who build the memorials of the prophets
whom your fathers killed.
Consequently, you bear witness and give consent
to the deeds of your ancestors,
for they killed them and you do the building.
Therefore, the wisdom of God said,
‘I will send to them prophets and Apostles;
some of them they will kill and persecute’
in order that this generation might be charged
with the blood of all the prophets
shed since the foundation of the world,
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah
who died between the altar and the temple building.
Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood!
Woe to you, scholars of the law!
You have taken away the key of knowledge.
You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.” This stuck out to me because God will give the consequences necessary for the bad actions of humans even though he loves them.
We always point out everyone’s faults and not our own. We tend to correct others and keep others accountable for what is right, but we tend to focus more on keeping others accountable and don’t look at ourselves. And what we could do to keep ourselves more accountable. We need to stop always correcting other and just love others.
What I learned from today’s scripture is that we always point out others mistakes but we never really point out ours.When others’ follow the rules but we can not stay accountable to follow them.People also just get caught up in sin which can lead to trouble down the road.
I think Jesus is trying to tell me to not get caught up in other people’s flaws, but realize your own flaws. “You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.” This quote helps me understand when we can’t have something we try to stop other people from having it to. Therefore, we have to find the flaws in ourselves and not judge other people.
something that stuck out to me was that we can’t be “lukewarm” Christians. We can’t have a toe into the kingdom of heaven we need to jump fully into the pool of heaven, that is why the Pharisees got so mad, because since Jesus told them that they would not go into the kingdom of heaven if they live their lifestyle, and I bet that many of us today would be like the pharisees.
We need to have compassion and keep loving other, even if it gets hard.
To me this is telling me that we should think about ourselves before we judge someone. I think that because we always go to judge other people to feel better about ourselves and don’t even think about what they will feel or that we have problems too. In this same way we need to know that instead of making people feel bad about there wrong and the laws think what mistakes you have made.
The Lord is trying to tell us that we need to love more. Even if we don’t really like someone we still have to love them. No matter what they do to you, even if you are super mad, don’t hate them. You should always love everyone as you love yourself.
”You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter,” I think what Jesus is trying to tell us is when we take away something from others just because we don´t have it is us being ungrateful and that is why it stuck out to me. We need to be grateful for what we have because there are people who cannot have what we have.
sometimes, we only care about what other other people are doing wrong. Not what we are doing wrong. Or maybe we do know what we are doing wrong but we don’t want to admit it. Jesus knows when we are wrong and right so there is no reason to lie about it. He loves you no matter what and if you lie about stuff you will be forgiven if you are truly sorry.
Jesus died on the cross not to release the sins of the world but to guide us to God and to heaven by dying on the cross because that what his purpose was to do was to show people about god and to release the sins of the world. Since he died on the cross it is up to us to because sisters and priest to get others into heaven.
Today Jesus is telling us to not be like the prophecies. Since the prophecies were “missing the entire purpose of why God gave us life, to love.” We should always remember and put above everything else, that our main purpose is to love. Rules are important, but not more important than our purpose.
Jesus says multiple times that some of the people will be killed in the name of the prophets. He says that the generation will be charged with all of the prophets and apostles’ blood. Then the pharisees acted very hostile toward Jesus because Jesus said something that they didn’t like and the Pharisees tried to catch him saying something. Do NOT act like the Pharisees and not like someone because they said something. You need to always forgive and try to be friendly with everyone even if you don’t like them.
The phrase “Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge” stuck out to me. I think this means that the scholars of the law messed up by making their laws or saying that they know all about the laws when some of the people who say they are scholars of the law did not even follow those laws that they helped make/govern.
God is saying that he cares about everyone even the bad people. In this paragraph He says ”I believe all of us sometimes worry more about the law more than loving others. We all can make the mistake of being like the Pharisees.” He is saying that He wants us to love one another more than the law.
Jesus is telling us not to worship false rules but to worship the ten commandments.
We should not judge people and wait until they mess up so that we can get after them. We should love everyone and not see if we can find something to get them in trouble. We should always love everyone because that is what we were made to do and if we always love we will be closer to going into heaven where Jesus will be loving us forever.
I think we need to focus on ourselves and really think about what we’re doing. We should pay less attention to what others are doing and make a relationship with God. When we are so caught up in what others are doing and pointing out everything that they do wrong, we never think that we could also be doing the same wrong, maybe even worse. This is why we need to stop being so enaged in what others are doing and center our attention on ourselves.
Jesus tells us not to listen to others, but to always follow him. He wants to be with us and near us. Don’t follow worldy things! Follow God!
Jesus is telling us not to follow what others think is right even if not but to follow what he has shown us to do that is right and to follow in his word
Jesus tells us to listen to him and not our false gods
In this saying, Jesus is saying that anybody who is leaving you astray will be killed and you will be found.And you need to help people that need help.
The lord is telling us we need to love more. We need to love everyone even if they hurt us. We never should hate anyone, even if they make you so mad, we need to love everyone. You need to love everyone as you love yourself.
In the scripture Jesus is trying teo say is that we always point out other peoples mistakes, but never ours. People always get caught up in sin which can lead to bad habbits. Jesus wants us to remember the true law of God over the will of man.
Today I feel like God is telling me that we don’t have to try to live up to today’s “rules” or where modern times have set the bar. I feel like life is always a competition. We want to be better than other people. We want to have better things. We want to look better. Stuff like that shouldn’t matter. We shouldn’t be putting things like that, those “rules” before our relationship with Christ.
I think Jesus is saying that we need to follow his law but he is also saying that if we do which we shouldn’t we need to try are best to follow those rules and to follow them until the day we die.
I think that Jesus is saying that we should not get caught up in what everyone else is doing wrong but realize our own mistakes. We are all sinners and sometimes we don’t see that we are making as many mistakes as the person next to us.
I think the scripture is telling me to not focus on other and to not point out others flaws because the only person we need to worry about is our selves and whether we think we will make it to heaven we don’t need to focus another people and what is wrong with them. if you do that then maybe something is wrong with you.
“Woe to you who build the memorials” I think this means who do you praise and who do you worship, do you worship the Lord our God or some thing else, we need to let God love us and we need to love God back with all are heart.
The most important thing we can do is love. I will always try my best to love God. I did help with loving others. I need to love not only my heart but with my mind and soul. God gave life for us to love.
Jesus is saying that anybody who is leaving you astray will be persecuted and you will be found. He loves everyone in the hole world good, or bad. No matter what Jesus will always love you.
i think what it means is we have to be grateful. and be happy with what we have because God gave us everything and we need to love him and his creations. and to also love others too and not stop them from doing what they want.
We should love everyone and not judge them for a bad thing that they have done or something that they have not done. God loves everyone no matter what they do he will welcome them back with open arms. We should do the same and love our neighbors as ourselves.
I think Jesus is trying to tell us that we need to focus on our own flaws and how to be better Christians instead of focusing on others
I think the point that Jesus is trying to make is that we are missing the entire point of having life, it is to love others as yourself. And we also need to stop pointing out others faults, and pay attention to our own faults.
Jesus is telling us that we need to focus more about what makes us us and how to be better Christians. And not to think about what other people are thinking of us.
Jesus is telling us not to listen to others because we should be listening to him. Only he can lead us down the path to heaven.
i think today Jesus is trying to tell us not to judge others according to the law, for even the law makers break them some times. Too many times we forget that love is more important than any law, and we need to love others with our whole being. Loving others is JUST as important as loving God. He also tells us that we should not block the way to Jesus for other people, because even if we choose not to follow Him, there are still others who are smarter and more righteous that will follow Him.
God is trying to say that you could point out other people’s mistake, but can’t point out your own. You should love everyone but you should also find your own and think about it, and learn from it.
“When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about many things, for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.” If we act with arrogance towards the son of God, it is the equivalent of doing the same to our own fathers. We respect our fathers, so why not respect our shared father? Had God not sent Jesus to us, we would still be living in the dark ages. God gave everything to us, and he can just as easily take it away.
I think Jesus is telling us that we are to hard on ourselves and other people. He wants us to be more loving, caring, and not hold others down. He wants us to love all and forgive. I think what he is trying to tell us is that we need to make more room in our hearts.
This is telling us that our sins are our fault, and we will be punished for them rightfully.
You have to learn to love others and follow the laws and rules set for you to follow. It will be difficult and you won’t like everyone that you meet and you don’t have to, you just have to respect others and be kind to them.
Today Jesus tells us that we will be charged with our ancestors’ mistakes but that does not mean that we will do it. What I think he is trying to tell us is that we are our own person and we can do whatever we want with them whether that is good or bad. through that all Jesus still loves us and always will.
we should not judge others when we haven’t even looked at ourselves. We shouldn’t even judge others at all. In this generation it is so hard to not judge. With all the gossip and constant judging. We should all just mind our own business and be nice to everyone. It is not that hard to give people a quick smile instead of giving them a mean and judging.
“You have taken away the key of knowledge.” When Adam and Eve sinned their eyes were opened up. When we go to Heaven we will have all of the answers to any question we have. We long for the kingdom of Heaven.
When I was reading this, what stuck out to me is that the Pharisees didn’t understand the point Jesus was trying to make. The point Jesus was trying to make is the entire purpose of why God gave us life is to love. He made us to have compassion on others, to forgive, to take care of the less fortunate, and to love even if people don’t deserve it.
Jesus is telling us to follow the ten commandments and His teachings and not to worship fake rules
Jesus is trying to tell us that while yes it is good to pray prayer doesn’t have any meaning if you just go through the motions and don’t think about what you are actually thinking. We have to mean it and meditate on every word we say and think about it, think about what we are saying whether it’s the longest prayer in the universe or a glory be we have to be spiritually awake and mentally awake as well so we can comprehend what we are saying because not paying attention to prayer in one of the devils biggest ways to take hold of you. If you want to make it to heaven you should start paying more attention to the words you are saying and you should mean it as well.
What I think Jesus is saying is that we should love everyone and not judge or let people down. He made us to love one another and lead one another to Him. He didn’t make us not to love or lead people away, we should always take care and respect one another.
All the time we look at other people and we say, Oh, he messed up or he did this or he didn’t do this. We are so caught up in what other people are doing. We need to focause on what we do and how to improve ourselves.
The point of life is to love God and everyone around us. We miss that sometimes when we get so caught up telling people to not break the rules even when we do it. The point of life is not to point out other people making mistakes, it is to love God.
Jesus loves every one but a lot of us sometimes follow a different path, it may lead to something good and fun but it might hurt you and your faith. Some people are blinded by work, money, and the system of life that they sometimes turn their back on God. I think the best way to calm yourself from greed, envy, sloth, lust, gluttony, pride, avarice, and wrath.
We always are so quick to judge other but wont look at ourselves and change. No one is perfect including me and everyone else. If you want to help out people work on yourself first.
That god made up compassionate, to help others, he loves us and we should spread the love even to others who do not deserve it.
Do not judege other people. Do not judge someone before you get to know them.
To me this is telling me that we should think about ourselves before we judge someone. I think that because we always go to judge other people to feel better about ourselves. Don’t even think about what they will feel or that we have problems too. In this same way we need to know that instead of making people feel bad about there wrong . The laws think what mistakes you have made.
I think Jesus is trying to tell us that the will of God is more important than the will of man. God is more important than Biden, Putin, Kim Jong Un, or any other leader
Today Jesus talks about how the scholars of the law are pointing out everyone’s sins when they should be reflecting on their own. We can always find the negative in a person but we should strive to be like Our Father. Love people and respect them.
He told us to love him with our whole heart even to the people who don’t deserve to be loved so that we may join him in heaven and to become more holy.
In this scripture reflection Jesus is telling us that He will have to pay for our sins. With His blood we with be saved for our actions.
something that stuck out to me was that we can’t be “lukewarm” Christians. We need to jump fully into the pool of heaven, that is why the Pharisees got mad, because Jesus told them that they would not go into the kingdom of heaven if they live their lifestyle, and many of us today would be like the pharisees.
I think Jesus is trying to tell us that humanity is mean but Jesus is waiting for us with kindness. Jesus is love and he gives it uncodentionally
This scripture is about sometimes we think about what others are doing wrong instead of what we our selves are doing wrong.
Today the paraphrases were interrogating Jesus and asking Him questions to try to get Him to say something that they could persecute Him about. That’s what people will do to us when we get out to things like a non catholic school or area, then people will try to make us sound dumb for believing this but we must stay firm and strong in our beliefs so we can get to Heaven.
i think Jesus is trying to tell us that the law can be wrong. what we are told to do is not always what we should do. Jesus was sopposed to be a regular person, instead he taught others and did what he wasn’t sopposed to do. sometimes the right way is not what others tell you to do, but to do what you think you should do.
In the scripture it says ‘I will send to them prophets and Apostles; some of them they will kill and persecute’ in order that this generation might be charged with the blood of all the prophets. And that Jesus will always be with us .
God made us in his liking and image, so who are we to judge when the only perfect person to exsisct is jesus.
Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood! In the olden days Jesus’s Apostles didn’t know what will be happening but Jesus knew what was going to happen. We should be able to follow Him without knowing what will happen.
We can preach the word of God all we want, but if we aren´t listening, then we ourselves wont change.
You should love your enemies just as much as your friend. God made us with compassion, why not put it to use? It says it in the Bible so I would think that Jesus would want you to show compassion.
The pharisees learned their evil ways from their ancestors and have carried them through generation to generation. It is very hard to break free and for them to make their faith their own. It is hard for me as well and it only gets harder. but I think that it will be well worth the fight.
I feel like this reading in particular really explains the way society works. We all want to point out the wrong things in people but never account for the wrong things we’ve done. It’s sad to think after all the things that people have done to improve our society that we still are like this. I guess it’s just part of being human, but we also have to at least try.
“When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees
began to act with hostility toward him”
When Jesus left they learned from him
We need to be ready for judgment day. That means we should help the less fortunate, and to love those who are not worthy of love. We also need to spread his word, and glorify the Lord with all our life.
The most important thing we can do is love. This stuck out to me in the scripture because it’s true! We shall love everyone equally and that we shall listen to what the Lord has to say to us.
We need to have compassion with eachother.
In this scripture reflection i feel like jesus is saying dont judge people for what they do. You do the same exact thing and you get on to people about so i think hes saying dont judge, make fun of people and dont try to make you look like the bigger or better person.
“Woe to you scholars of the law you have taken away the key of knowledge” To me this means that there will be people who try to stop you from reaching your goal at all costs even if it means they fail.
I believe the lord is telling me that we shouldn’t let our differences define who we are but our good deeds define who we are as a child of god and as a christian in our homes public and at church. All praise the lord amen
The scripture said to me that Jesus made us have compassion on others. This stuck to me because we have to forgive and have to care for others.Do not judge other people. Do not judge someone before you get to know them.Jesus and asking Him questions to try to get Him to say something that they could persecute Him about. That’s what people will do to us when we get out to things like a non catholic school or area, then people will try to make us sound dumb for believing this but we must stay firm and strong in our beliefs so we can get to Heaven.
I think Jesus is telling us that we should always stay with him no matter what people say about us being Catholic. Some people don’t realize that God gave us everything. We need to stay with Jesus.
I feel like this is saying there are some people in this world that are sent to fix this generation because this generation is filled with bad things. We need to see the bad in ourself instead of looking for the bad in others
The most important thing we can do is love This stuck out to me because of the Great Commandment You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart strength and mind.some times we tend to wonder of and get distracted by what other people are doing but we need to stay on our path and focus on us
The Pharisees miss why our lives are important, we need to think upon that who you are meant to be and why God intended to put you upon this Earth, its not a mistake or an accident we are here for a special purpose that you can either follow or be left astray.
I think God is telling me to think about what I do and not what others do. We need to focus more about our selves and not others. I think god wants us to take a look in the mirror and look at what we really need to focus on.
“The most important thing we can do is love” This stuck out to me because we should love and care for people even if they made some mistakes.
The information that i took in through this message is that God wants us to not only forgive others but to also embrace and care for them. we need to not only punish others for doing bad things, but also allow them to the information of what is right. If you are only taught what is wrong and never taught what is right, you will never learn.
I think this scripture is trying to tell us that we can’t get caught up in other peoples lives or flaws or whatever and that we need to focus on ourselves and ourselves only. We sometimes never realize our own flaws, but always realize other peoples flaws.
We need to treat everyone with compassion. We need to acknowledge our own faults and not criticize other’s for theirs. We also need to love our neighbors as we would ourselves regardless of other issues.
I think that God is telling us to not sin because he loves us so much and wants to be with us so we have to ignore sin and follow God so that we can be with him.
What I have learned from this scripture is that we all tend to point out what others do wrong but yet we don’t even know when we are doing something wrong.This scripture was also telling me that I should not point out others but yet look at what I am doing wrong.
I think Jesus is telling us that we should try not to sin and be a holy person. We have to be nice to others,help other people, and forgive people. God said that we find mistakes in other people, but we can’t find the mistake in ourselves. We should go to confession and do good deeds so on judgement day we can be accepted into Heaven.
I think Jesus is trying to tell us to love our neighbors and only worship our God.
We are always pointing out others faults but not our own. If we mess up we try and hide it but if someone else messes us we tend to try and make them feel humiliated. So we need to stop focusing on other peoples faults and try and look at our own, this world needs more kindness.
“The point Jesus is trying to make to the Pharisees is that they are missing the entire purpose of why God gave us life, to love.” This couldn’t be more true because God just wants to love us.
I think Jesus is trying to tell us to not to worry of what others are doing but to always think about him
Today Jesus is telling us that we are being hypocritical towards others. Always pointing out their faults and judging them for their faults even tho we do the exact same thing or worse. Jesus teaches us to look for the gold in people and not the dirt because anybody can find the dirt in somebody, but be like Jesus and find the gold.
Today God tells us that things can be different even when we don’t want it to. he has things planned and we should be ready for anything that he throws us at different roads like the priesthood or marriage. But that’s what God has for us.