Reflection for MONDAY, 16th Week, Ordinary Time.
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest, Bidar
Today's Gospel Reading
Matthew 12:38-42
Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here. The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here.
Today's Reflection
The fundamental mission of Christians is to proclaim the Good News.
The Good News is about the saving love of God for the world and we as Christians are to be witnesses of that saving love of God.
We are to be living signs that point to God’s saving love.
In the gospel, when the scribes and Pharisees asked Jesus for a sign, He pointed to Himself as the sign.
From how He lived and what He said, they should see the sign and what He was pointing at.
When others look at how we live and what we say, would they see us as signs pointing to God’s love?
We have to admit that there are times when we failed and became tarnished signs.
As we try to live up to our Christian mission, let us heed what the Lord is asking of us in the 1st reading, and it is this:
To act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with our God.
That would be enough as a sign for others.
GOD BLESS YOU
Good morning. Have a nice safe day.