--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 11/06/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 11/06/09 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2009/11/06/daily-readings-reflection-for-110609#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 11/06/09 Nov 6, 2009 9:00:12 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for Today by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: Lectionary # 489. Fri of 31 week. Romans 15:14-21. Psalm 81:1.2-3.3-4. Luke 16:1-8: Jesus is a parable preacher par excellence. No where in the Bible are there so many gathering of parables as we have in the Gospels except for that of St. John who speaks more in symbolic figures of speech that are more abstract.  The parable describes the style of Jesus who never missed an opportunity for a teaching moment with this his favorite "genre."  He does this with such facility and frequency that forces his listeners--and we are among them-- to think the thoughts of God and to actuate their meaning and motivation in our own daily practices and decisions.  Parables are colorful and attractive; they easily fascinate and capture our attention and after thinking about them we can easily see them as helpful in making our decisions about doing good and avoiding evil and the wiles of temptation. Jesus spoke them from his experiences of life and from he learned in his small town of Nazareth where his own extended family probably met and shared such creative stories that helped him learn how to be the parable speaker that he is.  Like Jesus, we, too love to hear little stories and anecdotes that help us. You certainly remember how your mother taught you some rhymes and little stories to help you be good or to watch out for danger.  Jesus learned from his mother Mary and from his relatives in that little town of simple farmers. His mind was being filled with such creative images and became a resource for his own mature years of preaching the Good News.  We are fortunate that the Gospels collected all that they could remember about Jesus' speaking in parables. Jesus's Jewishness is vibrantly alive in these parables.  They have many sides to them and become as interesting to solve as a crossword puzzle or sudoku square.  Even the experts whom we call "exegetes" interpret them in different ways from time to time.  In Hebrew thought these parables fit under the word "mashal" which means similes, metaphors, riddles, turning your thought upside down,  proverbs, maxims, fables,etc.  These creative ways of Jewish prophets and Jesus who is among them are not what we call historical anecdotes or realities but they are true to our life experiences and thus become perennial in their application.  One World Fair had a film called "The Parable" and this is who Jesus is for those who take the time to read, to pray , or to study the Gospels. We know well there is no real historical person who is the Prodigal Son or the Indulgent Father; nor is the Good Samaritan a historical character yet these examples hop with life once we ponder over their meaning; they help us to get outside of ourselves and to appreciate the call to "be all who we can be."   They have power and strong appeal. They motivate us to do something about our lives. Undoubtedly, Jesus did not have these parables infused into his brain by the Spirit. He developed them by listening to his mother tell about how yeast rises in the lump of dough; how she searched for the coin she had lost; how fig trees have signs of maturing with fruit. and how you sew a garment with appropriate thread and color.  He learned much from the woman who loved to ponder over the things she experienced; she weighed them daily for her own way of getting through another tough day of work and attention to Jesus and Joseph. 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