Sermon thoughts - 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time - B - (Mk 12, 28b-34)

Are all Indians computer experts? No… Are all Germans Nazis? No… Are all Muslims, terrorists? No… All Jews are bad people? No… We cannot judge people, in the light of some particular incident. Today's Gospel passage gives us this message. Normally, the Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes had no friendship with Jesus. But there are still exceptions just as in the Gospel we see a Scribe, who was friendly and understanding. The Gospel gives him these attributes. In order to understand it we need to have a look at the previous passage of today’s gospelread more...-- Fr Thomas Kalathil