28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Gratitude is a graced attitude. It is "graced attitude" because we cannot expect people nowadays to thank us whenever we do something good or favorable for them. Sometimes, we are even betrayed by them. After doing good on them, there are those who  would hurt us by ignoring or insulting the good deeds we extend to them. Only people who have a graced attitude who can be able to appreciate the goodness shared to them. No matter how small or big a good deed to them, they give thanks because they have a graced attitude, an attitude which appreciates every goodness happening to them. In the Gospel of Luke 17:11-19 Jesus was seeking this kind of attitude from those he healed as he asked, "Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" It is thereof relevant to know from the words of Jesus that he/she who knows how to give thanks, praises God. In other words, a grateful person or a person with a graced attitude is a Godly person. But one who is ungrateful knows not God. Today, we shall know how Godly we are if we know how to give thanks in good times as well as in bad times. Amen.