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When Jesus and his disciples came to Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple tax came to Peter and asked, "Does your teacher pay the Temple tax?"

"Of course," Peter answered.

When peter went in to the house, Jesus spoke up first, “Simon, what is your opinion? Who pays duties or taxes to the kings of this world? The citizens of the country or the foreigners?”

"The foreigners," answered Peter.

"Well, then," replied Jesus, "that means that the citizens don’t have to pay. But we don’t want to offend these people. So go to the lake and drop in a line. Pull up the first fish you hook and in its mouth you will find a coin worth enough for my Temple tax and yours. Take it and pay them our taxes." (Mt. 17;24-27)

The point of this pericope is not about Jesus ability to produce money instantly as if like magic. Remember th author of the Bible used literary form and style in presenting the gospel.

This is more about respecting the current legal set up during the time of Jesus. Jesus was a revolutionary but not a bloody one. He initiates transformation through a peaceful means. He ended up in a bloody death but he did not counter violence with violence.

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Judge Not

Judge not and you will not be judged.

The mere fact that we are here implies that we are one of the best souls among others. Life on earth is very fragile, vulnerable, full of dangers and one thing for sure, if you are not tough you don't deserve to be here.

We are all in the process of progressing for the better. Some of are are far more advance whilst other are logging behind, but nonetheless each one needs to be respected.

We should help our brothers who are spiritually weak, us who are strong. Time will come when they become more stronger than us.

Each one should help anyone whenever opportunity comes. This is the best way forward.

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DAILY GOSPEL «Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.» John 6,68 Monday, 23 June 2008 Monday of the Twelfth week in Ordinary Time Today the Church celebrates : St. John Fisher See commentary below or click here Saint John Climacus : "Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye?" 2nd book of Kings 17,5-8.13-15.18. For this, the king of Assyria arrested and imprisoned Hoshea; he then occupied the whole land and attacked Samaria, which he besieged for three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and deported the Israelites to Assyria, settling them in Halah, at the Habor, a river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. This came about because the Israelites sinned against the LORD, their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the domination of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and because they venerated other gods. They followed the rites of the nations whom the LORD had cleared out of the way of the Israelites (and the kings of Israel whom they set up). And though the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and seer, "Give up your evil ways and keep my commandments and statutes, in accordance with the entire law which I enjoined on your fathers and which I sent you by my servants the prophets," they did not listen, but were as stiff-necked as their fathers, who had not believed in the LORD, their God. They rejected his statutes, the covenant which he had made with their fathers, and the warnings which he had given them. The vanity they pursued, they themselves became: they followed the surrounding nations whom the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. till, in his great anger against Israel, the LORD put them away out of his sight. Only the tribe of Judah was left. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 7,1-5. Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove that splinter from your eye,' while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother's eye. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB Commentary of the day : Saint John Climacus (c.575-650), monk on Mount Sinai The Ladder of Perfection, 10th step "Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye?" I have heard some people speak ill of their neighbour and have rebuked them. To defend themselves, these evildoers have answered: «We are saying these things out of charity and concern!» However, I have replied: «Stop practising a charity like that or you will be accusing of deceit the one who said: 'Whoever slanders his neighbour in secret, him will I destroy,' (Ps 101[100],5). If you love him – as you claim – pray for him in secret and don't make a mock of the man. This is the way of loving that pleases the Lord; don't lose sight of it and you will take the greatest care not to judge sinners. Judas was of the number of the apostles and the thief was among the criminals but, in an instant, what an astonishing change!...» So reply to anyone who speaks evil of his neighbor to you: «Stop, brother! I myself fall into the most serious faults every day; how could I now condemn this man?» Thus you will make a twofold gain: you will heal yourself and heal your neighbor. Not judging is a shortcut towards the forgiveness of sins, if this saying is true: «Do not judge and you will not be judged»... Some people have committed grave faults in the sight of everyone but, in secret, have carried out the greatest acts of virtue. Thus their detractors have been mistaken by focussing only on the smoke without seeing the sun... Those who are hastily censorious and severe fall into this delusion because they don't keep the memory and constant care of their own sins before them... Judging others is shamelessly to usurp a divine prerogative; condemning them is to bring down our own souls... Just as a good grape-picker eats the grapes that are ripe and does not pick those that are green, so a watchful and sensible soul carefully takes note of all the virtues he sees in others; but it is the stupid man who keeps an eye on their faults and failings. Manage your subscription directly clicking HERE ---------------------------------------- The DGO is sent every day to more than 280.000 subscribers ! Do you want to help us maintain this free service? The Daily Gospel is free of charge, but it is not free of cost. Make a tax-deductible donation directly at "The Daily Gospel", 6375 New Hope RD, New Hope, KY 40052. USA. Thank you and God bless you.

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We love life, no matter what. Whatever the purpose of it something is certain, by nature we cling to life.

It is innate to anyone to fear death. Without this fear we will perish. Noone will strive to live.

Death is nothing to fear, this is our ticket to eternal life, but we need to live our life to fulfill a purpose which we only know by instinct. Though we don't understand it in essence but each one feel it. We want to live, we fear death.

There is a reason for life, life is the reason.

Gambling, bad or good?

Christian life is a life of gamble. Christians are taking chances as St Paul says, if we see what we believe then it's not faith.

We have no assurance, i.e. assurance understood as proof that can be touched or see. Our only assurance is the Word of God that as long as we believe in Jesus then we will not perish and have an everasting life.

Gambling in its traditional meaning is not really bad as long as you know your limit. We all need to relax and enjoy life in the manner that suits us. Gambling becomes evil when it's too much for virtue lies always in the middle. Anything that is too much is bad.

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Death Penalty or Reward

Is death penalty really a penalty, or is it more of a reward?

God is love and it is just proper for Him to keep the sould of a person who has been victimised by man's brutality, i.e. death penalty.

Killing a person is just like punishing the turtle by throwing it into a river. Death is a sort of homecoming. When we kill someone, we simply shorten his life adventure on earth and bring him home earlier than schedule.

The real penalty is when you are condemned to LIVE FOREVER, literally, i.e. living for million of years, 24 hours a day. Can you imagine yourself living that long and do you think would you like it. Living forever here on earth, in a world of sins and imperfections is indeed a brutal punishment.

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DAILY GOSPEL «Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.» John 6,68 Tuesday, 06 May 2008 Tuesday of the Seventh week of Easter Today the Church celebrates : St Petronax, St Dominic Savio See commentary below or click here Saint Irenaeus of Lyons : "So that he may give eternal life to all you gave him" Acts of the Apostles 20,17-27. From Miletus he had the presbyters of the church at Ephesus summoned. When they came to him, he addressed them, "You know how I lived among you the whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia. I served the Lord with all humility and with the tears and trials that came to me because of the plots of the Jews, and I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public or in your homes. I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus. But now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem. What will happen to me there I do not know, except that in one city after another the holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me. Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the gospel of God's grace. "But now I know that none of you to whom I preached the kingdom during my travels will ever see my face again. And so I solemnly declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you, for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 17,1-11. When Jesus had said this, he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you, just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him. Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began. I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you gave me is from you, because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours, and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them. And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB Commentary of the day : Saint Irenaeus of Lyons (c.130-c.208), Bishop, theologian and martyr Against the Heresies, IV,14 (SC 100, p.537 rev.) "So that he may give eternal life to all you gave him" In the beginning it was not because he had need of man that God fashioned Adam but so as to have someone on whom to set his blessings. For, not only before Adam but even before creation, the Word glorified the Father while dwelling in him and was glorified by the Father as he himself said: «Father, glorify me with the glory that I had with you before the world began.» Further, it wasn't because he needed our help that he told us to follow him but to win salvation for us. Because following the Savior is to share in salvation just as following the light is to have a share in the light. When people stand in the light, it is not they who illumine the light and cause it to shine but who are illumined and made to shine by it. Far from contributing anything at all to it, they benefit from the light and are lit up by it. This is how it is in serving God: our service contributes nothing to God for God has no need of man's service; but to those who serve and follow him God gives life, incorruptibility and eternal glory... If God requests man's service it is so that he who is good and merciful might grant his blessings to those who persevere in his service. For, if God has no need of anything, yet man has need of communion with God. The glory of man is to persevere in the service of God. That is why our Savior said to his disciples: «It was not you who chose me but I who chose you» (Jn 15,16). Thus he showed that it was not they who glorified him by following him but that, since they had followed the Son of God, they were glorified by him. «Father, I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory» (Jn 17,24). Manage your subscription directly clicking HERE ---------------------------------------- The DGO is sent every day to more than 280.000 subscribers ! Do you want to help us maintain this free service? The Daily Gospel is free of charge, but it is not free of cost. Make a tax-deductible donation directly at "The Daily Gospel", 6375 New Hope RD, New Hope, KY 40052. USA. Thank you and God bless you.