The Gospel of this Sunday is in the form of dialogue. A young man runs to Jesus very dramatically. He should be in some emergency – this is the first impression we get from his action.
To the next step he addresses Jesus as the ‘Good Master’. Jesus is not at all appreciating this addressing. He expresses his dislike by saying: only God alone is good. Jesus wants to avoid possible conflicts with the Jews, by placing himself equal to the goodness God.
The further dialogues shows that the young man really wants something – to inherit the Eternal Life. He is in need of this as, his observations of laws and rituals are not giving him complete joy and peace.
Jesus has only one thing to advice the young man:
if he wants to be complete, then he has to submit his life totally to God.
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- Fr Thomas Kalathil
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