Reflection for FRIDAY, 28th Week, Ordinary Time.

By


Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest
Don Bosco Shrine
Lingarajapuram, Bangalore

Today's Word

Luke 12:1-7  

“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.  Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Today's Reflection

No one can ever say that he has not committed any wrong-doing in his life.

Yes, we all acknowledge that we have done some kind of wrong; we all have sinned in one way or another.

We may have admitted to our guilt and confessed our sins.

In His love for us, God offers us forgiveness and wants to free us from our sins.

But somehow, the sins of our past come to haunt us now and again.

We recall and remember our sins and we feel ashamed and even burdened by it.

But if God has forgiven us, why then do the sins of our past still linger on in our lives?

Could it be that we have not really accepted God's forgiveness, and not really desired to be healed and freed from the shadows of our guilt.

It takes humility to accept God's unconditional love for us and to be healed by that love.

It is that love that makes us justified to receive salvation though we are sinners.

Let us, with humble and grateful hearts, continue to give thanks to God and to live our lives worthy of His love.


Saint of the Day

St. Teresa of Avila

Let the prayer of St Teresa of Avila, whose feast we celebrate today, become our own:

"Christ has no body now on earth but yours!

No hands but yours!

No feet but yours!

Yours are the eyes through which to look out Christ's compassion to the world

Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;

Yours are the hands with which He is to bless men now!”


God bless you 🙏

Have a lovely day.