Reflection for TUESDAY, 8th Week, Ordinary Time.
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest
Don Bosco Shrine
Lingarajapuram, Bangalore
Mark 10:28-31
Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
Today's Reflection
In life we seem to be searching for something, we seem to be looking for something.
Whatever we are searching for or looking for, we cannot deny that it will be for our own gain.
So when we do a job, we expect to be paid. When we offer help we may expect to be thanked.
As Peter asked Jesus in the gospel, "What about us? We have left everything and followed you."
So we search and look for something to gain in whatever we do.
But the 1st reading tells us that for the prophets were looking and searching for the salvation that God promised.
But their looking and searching was not for their own gain but rather for ours.
The prophets heard the call and responded and gave themselves to the service of God for the salvation of their people.
The prophets have given us the example of self-sacrifice for the good of others.
May we do likewise, for our salvation and for the salvation of others.
GOD BLESS YOU
Good morning. Have a nice safe day