Reflection for MONDAY, 8th Week, Ordinary Time
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest
Don Bosco Shrine
Lingarajapuram, Bangalore
Today's Gospel Verse
Mark 10:21
Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said.
“Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.
Whenever we go for a funeral and when we look at the body of the deceased, just what are the thoughts that will go through our minds?
Today's Reflection
For us who are Christians, we want to believe that there is an after-life, that there is an eternal life.
And that eternal life will be filled with the eternal light that gives us everlasting peace and joy.
More importantly, it is an eternal life with God.
With such thoughts as these, then we will dare to look at death and know that it is just a door that opens to the eternal life of heaven.
We will look at this life on earth as a passing on, and maybe that is why when a person dies, we say that the person has passed on.
But more than just passing on, it is the Lord our God who has called the person back to the eternal home.
So our true home is not here on earth. Our true home is heaven.
Let us not be too absorbed or even obsessed with the things of earth.
Let us set our hearts on our home above. And when the Lord our God calls us home, may we peacefully and joyfully go back to our Father's mansion where there will be a room ready for us.
GOD BLESS YOU
Good morning. Have a nice safe day.