Sep 4, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
Monday of week 23 in Ordinary Time
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910 – 1997)
“Then Jesus said to them, ‘I put it to you: is it against the law on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil; to save life, or to destroy it?’” With these words Jesus abolished all excuses against doing good. Often, we hesitate to do the good what we must do because we find some so-called valid and even religious excuses. That cannot be anymore. When you see someone before you, who is in need, there is no more excuse not to help or do something good. Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Mother Theresa of Calcutta, who understood this teaching of Christ. To whoever is in need, we must do what we can. We cannot just pass by, holding our excuses, if we want to follow Jesus Christ who healed the man with the withered hand on a Sabbath.
Sep 3, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 14:25-33
“Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple”. The love of Jesus Christ on the cross made a model for us to love. Cross became the central point of love. With out cross, we cannot love. There comes the intrinsic relationship between cross and discipleship. There are two moments in this: carrying one’s own cross and following Jesus. We cannot carry our cross and go where we want. This will not make us disciples of Christ. Often, we carry crosses but to attain what we want. But Jesus is very clear. Carry cross and follow Him. Let’s think, where am I going carrying my cross? Following my selfishness or my Jesus Christ?
Sep 2, 2022 | POSITIVE IMPULSES
The doubts and fears are part of life. But it shouldn’t fail you to choose the life and goodness, light and positivity. If you choose darkness because of your fears, you move towards darkness. But if you choose light because of your fears, darkness disappears. Darkness prompts to choose darkness because darkness gives you an illusory safety as you don’t see the truth and light. But the fact is that only truth and light can liberate you. When you have light in your heart and you really want to follow that light, you will move towards light.
Don Giorgio
Sep 2, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
Saint Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor
First Saturday : Let us entrust ourselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Gospel – Luke 6:1-5
‘The Son of Man is master of the sabbath.’ This affirmation of Jesus changed everything. The entire way to dealing with all our norms, traditions and system. Rules and regulations become instruments to love. Jesus becomes the point of reference and not any rule. We are not anymore tied down but freed to follow Jesus. Each rule gets its meaning when it serves this purpose of leading us to Jesus. When it helps me to follow Jesus in His way of love. Let’s think today: are the rules which I am following help me to love others in order to follow Jesus? The same applies for our convictions, ideas, positions etc about which we are stubborn sometimes and then those become not at all instruments of love.
Sep 1, 2022 | DAILY BREAD
Friday of week 22 in Ordinary Time
First Friday: Let us entrust ourselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
New wine needs fresh skins. The new wine is the new reality which Jesus brought to us. The love of God brought to us by the Person of Jesus Christ. If we want to contain that love in our hearts, we have to make our hearts new and fresh. With our old heart we cannot contain this new reality of God’s love in Jesus. We have to see the way Jesus sees the world and not in the way we want to see the world. We have to transform our heart to be like the heart of Jesus to be filled with that love. “Jesus meek and humble of heart… make my heart like unto Thine”
