Reflection for FRIDAY, 11th Week, Ordinary Time.
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Assistant Parish Priest,Manjeshwar,Kasargod
Reflective Reading of the Word of God
Matthew 6:19-23
Store up treasure for yourselves in heaven
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and woodworms destroy them and thieves can break in and steal. But store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor woodworms destroy them and thieves cannot break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
‘The lamp of the body is the eye. It follows that if your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light. But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be all darkness. If then, the light inside you is darkness, what darkness that will be!’
Reflection on The Readings
The purpose of our eyes is to give us sight so that we can interact with other people and our surroundings.
With our eyes, we are able to admire what is beautiful and pleasant.
But with our eyes, we may also begin to desire and to crave for more than we need.
So as much as we admire something that is beautiful and elegant, we may also begin to desire for it and want to possess it.
But we need to remember that what we want to possess will, in turn, eventually possess us.
Often we forget that, and so whatever we see desirable, we want to possess, because we think that the more we have, the happier we will be.
But in the 1st reading, St. Paul tells us what his happiness is.
While others boast of their worldly achievements and possession, he “boast” about his feebleness and poverty.
But in having nothing, he had Christ, who is his everything, and that is his happiness.
Let us ask the Lord to open our eyes to see that Jesus is our everything, and He is all we need to be happy.
GOD BLESS YOU
Good morning. Have a nice day
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