Oct 8, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time
Gospel Luke 10:38-42
“It is Mary who has chosen the better part; it is not to be taken from her.” What is the better part? The better part is to be at the Lord’s feet and listening to Him speaking. This is not about being active or not active. But it’s about being in the presence of the Lord and listening to Jesus. This being at the Lord’s feet and listening is also very active. It’s an active being and it’s an active listening. It’s an active being as one should actively choose to ignore the rest and everything else to be at the Lord’s feet. It’s an active listening as one should listen only to His voice and actively cancelling the rest of the voices. Martha was preparing everything for the meal for Jesus. But her complaint made the difference. She complaint about her sister. Her complaint shows that she forgot about the presence of the Lord. Whatever she did, she did not connect it to the presence of the Lord. The Gospel says, “she was distracted with all the serving”. The distraction in our life, is losing the connecting of what we are doing with the presence of the Lord in our life and actively listening to Him. Let’s reflect: Am I able to connect my daily activities to the presence of the Lord in my life?
Don Giorgio
Oct 7, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Our Lady of the Rosary
Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time
Gospel Luke 1:26-38
The feast of the Holy Rosary is a very profound feast to be lived and relived in our daily life. In the today’s Gospel we read the passage of Annunciation where the Blessed Virgin Mary says her “Fiat” to the plan of God in these words, “‘I am the handmaid of the Lord, let what you have said be done to me”. A complete submission to the Plan of God for the whole humanity. She lived this plan of salvation for the humanity in first person. And the devotion of Rosary is one of the best ways to relive this mystery. Rosary is a way of life. Rosary is to relive the mystery of salvation unfolded in the life of Mother Mary. Rosary becomes a way of life in so far as you can relate Rosary to your life and the life around you. While you walk with Mother Mary in reciting the rosary, you must relate to your walk, the joyous mysteries, still unfolding in the world, the sorrowful mysteries still unfolding in the world, the glorious mysteries still unfolding in the world, and the luminous mysteries still unfolding in the world. Then Rosary becomes a way of life. Let’s reflect: Is Rosary just a devotion or a way of life for me?
Don Giorgio
Oct 6, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel Mark 10:2-16
“So then, what God has united, man must not divide”. This is very clear message from Jesus Christ. Because God is love and He unites and not divides. In this specific context, this is about the union of a man and a woman in a family. A family is born in the unity created by God. And this unity must not be divided by the decision of a man or a woman. Because this is a unity willed by God. This unity is to be nurtured and cultivated every moment in the family. What is necessary in this, for each person who live in this unity, in the family, is to grow in this unity, and to overcome the temptations of division. And this is done in unity, together. Not one alone and not one trying to grow alone. The division comes when one thinks only about himself or herself. In the family, both man and woman, think together. This unity needs space for forgiveness, for restarts, for understanding, for a lot of other virtues. But the basis of this is to understand that it’s unity what God wants and not the division. Then we can grow in unity. Let’s reflect: How much I work and I pray for the unity in the families?
Don Giorgi
Oct 5, 2024 | NEWS
On October 3, S.M. Sybilla, Superior General of our Congregation, began a visit of communities in Tanzania. The visit will last until October 28, during which time the Mother General intends to visit all 10 communities spread throughout the country. In addition to meetings and talks, lectures and seminars are planned for the sisters on the themes and resolutions of the General Chapter that ended last year.
Oct 5, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time
Saint Faustina Kowalska, Religious
First Saturday : Let us entrust ourselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Gospel Luke 10:17-24
“Yet do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you; rejoice rather that your names are written in heaven”. These words of Jesus make us understand how important to live according to a vertical dimension than a horizontal dimension. What is important always is to have our names written in heaven. It’s more important than any other earthly achievement. There can be lots of earthly achievements. As we read, the disciples had lot of achievements. Even the devils submitted to them when they used the name of Jesus. But what is important is that their names are written in heaven. This heavenly dimension gives a meaning to everything we do in our life. This dimension comes when we become the channels of grace. This dimension comes when we become humble enough to be children of the heavenly Father. This dimension comes when we recognize how much God the Father loves us. Let’s reflect: How much importance I give to the earthly dimension of life in comparison to the heavenly dimension of life which Jesus underlines?
Don Giorgio
