Reflection for SATURDAY, after Ash Wednesday. (4th Day of Lent)
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest
Don Bosco Shrine
Lingarajapuram, Bangalore
Today's Gospel Verses
Luke 5:27-32
After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.” And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.
And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them. And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous sinners repentance.”
Today's Reflection
Our shadows have something mysterious as well as spiritual about it.
Where there is light, we will have our shadows. And depending on where the light is, the shadows can be long or short.
So whenever we stand under the sun or in a place where there is light, then we will have a shadow.
So wherever we go, our shadow follows us and will not leave us; we can never be separated from our shadows.
The 1st reading mentioned about light and shadow - your light will rise in the darkness, and your shadows become like the noon.
Indeed when the light of God is shining above us, our shadows will not be much.
But when we are far away from God, then our shadows will be long and even eerie.
Yet God calls us out from the darkness of our sins into His wonderful light.
In the gospel, when Jesus called Levi the tax collector, He was expounding on what He said: I have not come to call the virtuous, but sinners to repentance.
Let us let the light of God shine into the dark corners of our hearts so that we will truly repent of our sins and then our shadows become like noon.
GOD BLESS YOU
Good morning. Have a nice safe day