We are more precious for what we are than for what we have
We are more precious for what we are than for what we have. This is a fundamental principle which we must keep in our life. Our efforts in our life must not be to acquire more and more things but to bring out what we are truly. We must never define ourselves with the things we have or things we earned. We must try to define ourselves with what we are. And our aspiration should be to go beyond ourselves, beyond our selfish interests. Anything what we have is not as precious as what we are, because what we are, determines our happiness and what we have, determines where we are. Wherever we are, our happiness depends on what we are! Don Giorgio
Saturday 4 February
Saturday of week 4 in Ordinary Time Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary First reading - Hebrews 13:15-17,20-21 The reading speaks about the sacrifices that please God. Jesus Christ offered the perfect sacrifice for us and through Christ we continue to offer unending sacrifice of praise by acknowledging His sacrifice. But this must be complemented by our own sacrifice after the model of Christ. What is that? “Keep doing good works and sharing your resources, for these are sacrifices that please God”. Doing good works and sharing our resources. The two dimensions which our sacrifices must have. It’s not enough we are doing good actions but also, we must be sharing our resources. Charity and Justice. Often, we find ourselves happy with good works and we abstain from sharing what we have. Again, the reading defines the good action. It is doing His will in any kind of good action. An action becomes a good action in faith only when it is done as His will. Good actions done as His will. I do this because God wants me to do this. Not because it’s just a good action. Again, why we must share? We share to transform ourselves to be acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. We share as Jesus shared Himself. Let’s reflect: Am I doing good works as the will of God, and do I share my resources as Jesus shared Himself?
Friday 3 February
Friday of week 4 in Ordinary Time Saint Blaise, Bishop, Martyr First reading - Hebrews 13:1-8 “Jesus Christ is the same today as he was yesterday and as he will be for ever”. In this sentence we can really know whom we can really trust in our life. The One who is always the same, that is Jesus Christ. All others around us, depends on their mood, changes, transforms, adapts to the situations and changes. But the one is above all changes and remains the same is Jesus Christ. That is why we must create a stable and permanent relationship with Jesus Christ because He is always the same and eternal. More than that, He says, “I will not fail you or desert you”. How consoling is that! The only One who does not fail or desert us, Jesus Christ And so we can say with confidence together with the author of the book of Hebrews, “With the Lord to help me, I fear nothing: what can man do to me?”. This is where we anchor our faith, in Jesus Christ. Let’s reflect: How much I am aware that Jesus Christ is the only One who is stable and eternal?