Reflection for TUESDAY, 28th Week, Ordinary Time.
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Director, Social Action Movement, Don Bosco Bidar
Today's Word of God
Luke 11:37-41
When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. But the Pharisees were surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.
Then the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.
Today's Reflection
Love is indeed a wonderful thing, yet love is not a thing.
Love cannot be adequately described in words because it has so many beautiful aspects.
But it is not just beautiful because it has that rosy lovey-dovey feeling.
Over and above all the words that can be used to describe love, it must be said that love is a sacrifice.
God revealed that love is a sacrifice when on the Cross, Jesus showed how great and wonderful love is.
So even if we have faith but no love, then faith is just a word without a meaning.
That is why in the 1st reading, it says that what matters is faith that makes its power felt through love.
So when it comes to giving alms or helping the poor, it is not the amount of money but about the love that is in the act of giving and helping.
But we cannot give or share what we do not have.
Hence, in the Response to the Psalm, we say: Lord, let your love come upon us.
May the love of the Lord be always upon us, so that we will live out our faith with love.
GOD BLESS YOU
Good morning. Have a nice safe day.