Acquiring hot body has become fashionable nowadays, most of

the advertisements that we see all encourage us to obtain such.

Some sacrifice many things to acquire it. They sacrifice eating
even the food they love and spend many hours in the gym for the
sake of maintaining their hot figure just like our many brothers
here. Some even spend their fortune to obtain it by means of
buying supplement and other accessories that would help them.
The bandwagon of hot body has already been deeply set in the
minds of many persons in the modern and secularized world but
there is one hotness that the Lord in todays gospel wished us to
acquire instead. The H which stands for Humility, The O which
stands for Openness and the T which stand for thankfulness.
Humility. In todays gospel we see an occasion where Jesus is
thanking God for revealing this to the lowly ones and hiding it to
the wise. Perhaps you may ask? Is it wrong to be intelligent? is it
wrong to be wise and learned in many things? The lord does not
mean that it is wrong in fact in other gospel passages he
encourages us to be so, but in the gospel, the lord warns us not to
be proud and boastful in what we have attained and be a Mr.
know-it-all. He reminds us that pride blocks us from seeing the
grace of God which he gives us and also hinders us from receiving
more blessing from Him, as the tagalog song goes, basong may
tubig lagyan mong muli aapaw dahil wala ng silid. It is because
we failed to be humble and think of having everything that we
become blind to the beauty of God revelations.
Another virtue connected to this is openness. Pride is what
makes us closeminded and disregard the grace of God, because
of our self-sufficient feeling that we became resistant to the help
of God. That is why in the gospel, the lord praised the lowly and
humble because they are more open to receive the Lord in their
lives unlike the proud hearted and self-sufficient persons. The
Lord makes impossible things on those who are open for it so in
this advent season, let us try to be open for the grace of God for
in doing so, God will make miracles in our lives.
Thirdly, Thankfulness. We see in todays gospel the thankful
attitude of Christ to God the father. Perhaps you may ask why St.
luke stressed on that attitude of Jesus? It is to remind us that us a
humble and open person it is by nature that we should be
thankful for all the graces that the lord has made us, as what the
Spanish saying goes un ser bien nacido es agradecido it is by
nature of an educated man to be thankful. So let us try to be
thankful always for all the graces that we receive from God be it
trials and difficulties or success and victories.
As I end this reflection, let us ask the intercession of the
blessed mother to help us be a Hot person that is a humble, open

thankful person so that we may become a good instruments of

Gods Salvation. Amen