இவ் மறையுரையை வழங்குபவர்

Rev.Fr.Vedha Bodhaga Sahaya Selvaraj(OFM Cap)
Burkina Faso, West Africa.
vedasahayam1982@gmail.com

ஞாயிறு மறையுரைகள்

மதிப்பிற்குரிய அருட்பணியாளர்களே, துறவிகளே, அருட் கன்னியரே, உங்கள் ஞாயிறு மறையுரைகளை எமது இணையத்தளத்தில் பிரசுரித்து, ஆண்டவர் இயேசுவின் நற்செய்தியை எல்லோருக்கும் அறிவிக்க விரும்பினால், info@tamilcatholicnews.com என்ற எமது மின்னஞ்சலுக்கு உங்களுடைய ஆக்கங்களை அனுப்பிவைக்கவும். உங்கள் மறையுரைகள் உலகெங்கும் இருக்கும் அனைத்து தமிழ் உள்ளங்களையும் சென்றடையும்.



இதோ! ஓநாய்களிடையே ஆடுகளை அனுப்புவதைப்போல நான் உங்களை அனுப்புகிறேன். எனவே பாம்புகளைப்போல முன்மதி உடையவர்களாகவும் புறாக்களைப்போலக் கபடு அற்றவர்களாகவும் இருங்கள்.
(மத்தேயு 10:16)

நீங்கள் போய் எல்லா மக்களினத்தாரையும் சீடராக்குங்கள்; தந்தை, மகன், தூய ஆவியார் பெயரால் திருமுழுக்குக் கொடுங்கள். நான் உங்களுக்குக் கட்டளையிட்ட யாவையும் அவர்களும் கடைப்பிடிக்கும்படி கற்பியுங்கள். இதோ! உலக முடிவுவரை எந்நாளும் நான் உங்களுடன் இருக்கிறேன்
(மத்தேயு 28:19-20)

நீ அவற்றை உன் பிள்ளைகளின் உள்ளத்தில் பதியுமாறு சொல். உன் வீட்டில் இருக்கும்போதும், உன் வழிப்பயணத்தின் போதும், நீ படுக்கும்போது, எழும்போதும் அவற்றைப் பற்றிப் பேசு.
(இணைச்சட்டம் 6:7)









Sixth Sunday of Easter (A)

It is Better to Suffer for Doing Right than for Doing Wrong

Acts 08:5-8, 14-17
1Peter 3:15-18
John 14:15-21

Good morning dear friends in Risen Christ Jesus. How are you all?
If God appears to you and asks what kind of life that you want to live on this earth? Do you want the life of suffering? Or do you want the life of happiness? Which one will you choose?

Most of us will choose the life of happiness. But in reality we fail to understand that the life of happiness comes only through sufferings. There is no gain without a pain. But we try to avoid suffering in our life. We begin to question God; why is it for me alone? I am a good man/woman but I suffer? I pray every day but still I suffer? Jesus’ answer for is “It is better to suffer for doing right than to do wrong”. Dear friends, in the Bible there are so many people who suffered for doing right and then to wrong. Let us take two of them for our reflection today.

Man suffered for doing Right
There was a man who lived in the land of Uz. He was a very good man. He was blameless and upright in the sight of God. He always feared God, and turned away from evil. God blessed him with seven sons and three daughters. Also he had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants. This man was the greatest of all the people of the East. It is non-other than Job.

His sons used to celebrate feast in their house each according to their days. And they always invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. When the days of the feast gets over Job used to offer burnt offerings to the Lord by saying, during the feast my children might have sinned against the Lord or they might have cursed the Lord. Thus Job purifies himself and his whole family members. Hence, he lived a life of holiness and led his children to follow in the same way. God loved Job so much so to say God challenged Satan by saying “the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?” But this man suffered terribly for doing good or remaining as a just man. He lost all his children, his possession, also his own friends left him and they accused job for being just man. all the more his own wife said, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God, and die.” But Job said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Man suffered for doing Wrong
There was a man shepherding the sheep. He was leading a very good life and God found him worthy of His sight. God choose him for his service. In a special way He anointed him to lead the people of Israel. It is none other than the king David. Primarily duty of the king is to safeguard the people from all dangers. Here the king himself violets the commandments of God and does evil in the sight of God. While the soldiers and the people of Jerusalem were fighting in the battle field with Ammoniates here the king was attracted towards a woman. Knowing that she is wife of Uriah the Hittite yet he was attracted towards this woman. Not only that the king killed Uriah and took Bathsheba as his wife. Thus David does evil in the sight of God.

Here the king does not worry about the people rather he became selfish and began to satisfy his bodily pleasure with some other’s life partner. (When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband. And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD 2 SAMUVEL 11:27).

When David understood that he has committed sin against the Lord he begins to suffer terribly. David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die. Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child that is born to you shall die.” The LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and it became sick. David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground. Six days he mourned, fasted for his mistakes. Thus David suffered terribly. David thought doing wrong may bring joy and happiness but it brought to him great sufferings.

Dear friends now let us decide. Today what do you choose for your life to do good or to do bad? Choice is yours and the reward is also waiting for you according to your choice.

After the death of Jesus the apostles lived the life of confusion because death of Jesus shattered their hope. And after the resurrection of Jesus the apostles were afraid to live their life publically. Because whoever spoke of Jesus of Nazareth immediately all of them were put to death. For example in the Acts of the Apostles 6th chapter we read that the apostles anoint Stephen along with other deacons. In the 7th chapter Stephen preaches about risen Christ boldly. In the 8th chapter he was killed by stoning. Even though the apostles knew that when they speak about right thing they have suffer yet they speak boldly the right thing and suffered for its sake.

Dear friends how many of you really love Jesus? Kindly raise your hands. (Repeat the Question)

Dear friends when I asked first time I could see so many hands. But when I asked the same question for the second time, I could see only few hands. If I continue to ask few more times I do not know how many hands will remain up.

Dear friends in today’s gospel Jesus tells us that “if you love me, you will keep my commandments”. That is to say all those who love God will follow the commandments of God. In the Old testament God gave 10 commandments but people felt difficult to follow. So in the New Testament Jesus gave only two commandments. How many of us follow strictly even the two commandments?.

Jesus asks us to speak right thing even when we are aware of the consequences. Mr. Michael D’Cunha said in the press meet that it is the Christian faith motivated him to speak what is right than to suffer what is wrong. Today how many of our parents teach children to speak right thing? God puts a challenge towards us that it is better to suffer for right than to do wrong.

Where does our world leading us to? If you say you journey towards goodness? Then whom does the goodness belong to? Is it good for you or for the world? Today our life is journeying towards goodness but this goodness is full of selfish attitude. From the very birth people are becoming selfish. As children we hear from our parents ‘this is only for you don’t give to anybody’ as a result we grow in selfishness and self-centeredness.

On the other hand we do have parents who bring up their children with love and fear of God. They go through lots of difficulties and suffer for doing right and teaching right. That’s what we see in the life of the saints. Suffering brought the saints and holy people close to God. Accepting suffering with love and doing the right thing gave meaning and happiness to life.

St. Teresa of Child Jesus suffered from sickness and was humiliated by her community sisters but she did every little act with an extraordinary love for Jesus instead of grumbling. For nearly 40 years St. Monica suffered, prayed and did fasting for the conversion of her son Augustine. Sr. Rani Maria’s parents and family members suffered for the death of their beloved but they begged for God’s pardon on the murderer instead of harming him. All over the world today Christians are persecuted, tortured and suffering in various ways because of faith but our great leader Pope Francis suffers along with our Mother Church and still extends God’s forgiveness without taking revenge or doing wrong.


Yes dear friends, what is our choice today?

Are we going to choose to suffer in doing what is right? Or something else?

It is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong

Have a Blessed week.