Reflection for THURSDAY after Epiphany.
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest
Don Bosco Shrine
Lingarajapuram, Bangalore
Today's Gospel
Luke 4:14-19
Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.
He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue,as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
“The Spirit of *the Lord is on me, because he *has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Today's Reflection
With all honesty, we have to admit that there are people whom we don't like, or resent, and even detest.
Certainly life is not all fresh air and sunshine, and people are not all pretty flowers and butterflies.
There will be people who irritate us and even be a "pain in the neck" for us.
So we have a mental list of persons that we would just want to avoid and not to come into contact with.
But turning the tables around, we may want to ask ourselves if we are on other's people's "Don't like" list.
Certainly, in all honesty, we too have to admit that there are people who don't like us, or even resent and detest us.
In a way, it can be said that what we think of others is also a reflection of what others think about us.
If that is the case, then the 1st reading urges us to remember that we are to love because God loved us first.
And if we say that we love God, but harbour ill-feelings about others, then we have to remember the commandment of love that God has given us.
When we choose to love others, then we are proclaiming the Good News of God's love.
GOD BLESS YOU
Good morning. Have a nice safe day