Reflection for TUESDAY, 4th Week of Lent
By
Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Rector and Parish Priest
Don Bosco Shrine
Lingarajapuram, Bangalore
Today's Gospel Verses
John 5:5-9
One man was there, who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been lying there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your pallet, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his pallet and walked.
Today's Reflection
There is no doubt that we come to Church for a need.
Of course the highest need is to come to Church and give thanks to God.
We give thanks to God for blessing us and then we want to present our needs to God.
Yes, we know that God loves us and hence we dare to tell God what are our needs.
God is so great in His love that His blessings don't come in drops but in torrents.
Like in the 1st reading, God's blessings flow from the Temple and gives life in abundance.
And God's blessings also bring healing as it did for that man who was sick for thirty-eight years.
Jesus is asking us the same question that He asked the man: Do you want to be well again?
We all need blessings and we want to live well and be healed of what is wrong with us.
If we want all that, then let us go to Church to give thanks to God and offer Him our prayers.
We only need to believe and ask, and it will be given to us.
GOD BLESS YOU
Good morning. Have a nice safe day