Category: Pastor’s Corner

Dear Parishioners in Christ,

That which appeared to be a watertight case to the Pharisees to trap Jesus ended up a trap for themselves. They brought a woman claiming to have been caught in the act of committing adultery and sought for capital punishment of instant death.

If Jesus agreed with them and give away the woman to be stoned, they could accuse Jesus as the one without compassion. Instead, if he tried to protect the woman, they could accuse him of not following the law of Moses which prescribed such a woman to be stoned.

Jesus does understand the dishonesty of the Pharisees and thus challenges them. They could never imagine that Jesus would come up with such an ingenious solution to the issue concerning the woman.

When asked if there is any one without sin among them, they fell silent. They disappeared from the scene. Jesus did not scold the woman but asked her not to sin again. What a lesson!!!

In the first reading the Prophet Isaiah assures the people deported to Babylon that God is planning something new for them.

In the second reading Paul considers everything is the world as mere rubbish when compared to Christ.

Yes, dear friends, let us cast away the old things and search for Christ in whom we find the new way to be happy.

Fr. Raj