Reflection for FRIDAY, 9th Week, Ordinary Time.
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Assistant Parish Priest,Manjeshwar,Kasargod
Reflective Reading of the Word of God
Mark 12:35-37
'David himself calls him Lord'
At that time while teaching in the Temple, Jesus said, ‘How can the scribes maintain that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, moved by the Holy Spirit, said:
The Lord said to my Lord:
Sit at my right hand
and I will put your enemies
under your feet.
David himself calls him Lord, in what way can he be his son?’ And the great majority of the people heard this with delight.
Reflection on the Readings
The world may seem rather dark with so much of bad news.
And the bad news doesn’t seem to taper off; in fact it is like more and more bad news every day.
So it may seem that the world is getting darker and darker.
And yet there are good news, though these good news are like little sparks in the darkness.
But these sparks of good news are enough to sparkle in the darkness to give hope to humanity.
In the 1st reading, Tobit and his wife Anna, as well as Tobias and his wife Sarah, had gone through a period of agonizing darkness.
But the little sparkles began to appear – Tobias got married to Sarah and their marriage was blessed by God; Tobias also recovered the silver for his father; Anna rejoiced at Tobias’ safe return; and Tobit regained his sight.
That was enough for them to see the glorious light of God’s wonderful blessings.
Tobit summed it all up as he said: Blessed be God! Blessed be his great name! Blessed be all his holy angels! Blessed be his great name forever more!.
We too may be scourged with bad news and darkness.
But it is a holy darkness, because that will prepare us to see the sparks of God’s blessings.
And then we will rejoice, and like Tobit, we will truly bless God for His wonderful love for us.
GOD BLESS YOU
Good morning. Have a nice day.
Let's pray for rains keeping in mind our farmers.