Reflection for THURSDAY, 29th Week, Ordinary Time.
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Director, Social Action Movement, Don Bosco Bidar
Today's Gospel Reading
Luke 12:49-53
“I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and what constraint I am under until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
Today's Reflection
The human being is a wonderful creation, and it is also a mystery.
The abilities and the potentials of the human being are amazing enough.
Yet the full abilities and potentials of the human being are yet to be fully discovered.
In that sense the human being is a mystery.
And so are the human nature and the human spirit. There is still a lot more to understand about the human nature and the human spirit.
In the 1st reading, St. Paul prayed that God may give us the power through His Spirit for our hidden selves to grow strong, so that Christ may live in our hearts through faith, and that our hearts will be planted in love and built on love.
The hidden self that St. Paul is talking about is the depths of the human nature and human spirit that is created by God and can only be filled by God.
When we realise that the depths of our hearts yearn for God alone, then God will make His home in our hearts and we will be the temples of the Holy Spirit.
And in the face of divisions and the distress of life, we will have the peace and consolation that God is dwelling in our hearts.
And our hope is that one day we will make our final journey for this world to the eternal world and be with God and rejoice forever in His presence.
GOD BLESS YOU
Good morning. Have a nice day.