28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

“Enlarging Our Border:

Living a Life of Thanksgiving”
October 13, 2019
@Parish Church of St. Luke Sariaya, Quezon
 Luke 17 : 11 – 19
*God has done
great things for
us!
- in response, we
are to be thankful
people.
2 Kings 5 : 14 – 19
- Naaman after
receiving his
healing was
grateful and
brought a gift to
the prophet
Elisha.
 Luke 17
V.4 – When He saw them, He said
to them “GO AND SHOW
YOURSELVES TO THE PRIEST.”
And AS THEY WERE GOING,
THEY WERE CLEANSED.
 V.15 – now one of
them when he saw
that he had been
healed, turned back,
glorifying God with
a loud voice and he
fell at his feet giving
thanks to him.
*and ‘he was a
Samaritan’
OF COURSE, they all got healed!
- Yet the other nine have missed
the greater blessings
(to made whole/complete)
Because of their ingratitude.
*We are to be a thankful people!
 EUCHARIST – “THANKSGIVING”

*When we come for the Eucharist we do

what ‘Naaman and the Samaritan Leper’
did. We give praise and thanks to God.
 - Let our thanks find joyful expression in the
Eucharist.
- And so with a thankful hearts, as a way of
response, we bring our tithes, offerings,
thank offerings, our service to God – Our
Worship.
 *So, we continue to live and all that we
ought to do as His slaves, always having
a reflective heart…
Reflective of all good things that what
God has given and done for us.
CAUTION:
An unreflective heart is an unappreciative
heart.. An unappreciative heart is an
ungrateful heart.. And ungrateful heart
is a wretched, sick heart..
 Thanksgiving has the
power to refine the
person who gives it,
and to gladden the
person who receives
it.
- While, ingratitude, on
the other hand, hardens
the former and saddens
the latter.
*Gratitude is the attitude of a sensitive
soul appreciative of its gifts.
- It is a sign of a good heart.
 CAUTION: Let us not be like the Nine
ungrateful lepers, who had received and
enjoyed their blessings yet have forgotten
their Benefactor and saddened Him.
*A Grateful Heart is a humble Heart..
A reverential Heart.. A Praising Heart.

- It’s a Heart that is always joyful and

healthy.