Babel tower
Babel tower always inspires to make deep reflection about the desire of our pride filled ego. Our ego which wants to touch to the sky and to keep the whole world around us. We use our convenient concepts and opportune ideas to make this tower of our pride. Even though we know that sky is far away we keep trying to build this tower of ego up on the illusion that it’s very close. We convince others to contribute to building our pride-filled ego with invented necessities and fictitious proposals. Remember, this is a failed attempt, always failed. Our pride will only destroy us. Don Giorgio
Friday 17 February
Friday of week 6 in Ordinary Time The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order First reading - Genesis 11:1-9 They wanted to build a tower reaching the heaven with man made bricks. “‘Come,’ they said ‘let us build ourselves a town and a tower with its top reaching heaven. Let us make a name for ourselves, so that we may not be scattered about the whole earth.’” They wanted to reduce the relationship of man with heaven and with God as something man made and one way relationship - a tower with its top reaching heaven. The reason for this is to make a name for oneself. It shows how much bigger can be the ego of a person. How much place the ego would like to take for its own. How much all other things become unimportant before our ego. Then the man wants to keep his pride to be the point of unity of humanity. The entire place God is taken away by the ideas of man. This also happens in our life. We want to replace God with our ideas. We want to substitute Him with our beautiful concepts. That will not stand. Let’s reflect: how much my ego determines my relationship with God?
Thursday 16 February
Thursday of week 6 in Ordinary Time First reading - Genesis 9:1-13 “Here is the sign of the Covenant I make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all generations: I set my bow in the clouds and it shall be a sign of the Covenant between me and the earth”. The Lord is trying to make the world a place of peace by making a Covenant with us. With everyone of us. The sign of the Covenant is in the clouds, in the sky. Sky is accessible to everyone everywhere. God our Lord considers each one of us everywhere in the world as important and He made this covenant with each one of us. A covenant between God and us. This “us” feeling before God is very important. That “us” feeling is the being the “People of God”. This belonging to the People of God is what we lack sometimes. Whatever we do we do under the sky and therefore it has these two dimensions: a dimension towards God and a dimension towards others. Everything we do, we do as a member of the People of God. We do it under the covenant placed in the sky. Let’s reflect: How much am I aware that I belong to the People of God in my daily actions?