Thursday 12 January
Thursday of week 1 in Ordinary Time First reading - Hebrews 3:7-14 “we shall remain co-heirs with Christ only if we keep a grasp on our first confidence right to the end”. The confidence in the co-heir who is Christ, we must keep a grasp on it to the end. The main hindrance is the hardening of the heart by the lure of sin. The hardening happens with our pride. To be the co-heirs with Christ, we must have the same mentality of Christ. Christ who humbled himself to become man. The humility in our heart makes us co-heirs of Christ. But the pride comes in, it is gone. The lure of sin happens when you become selfish, when you want to put yourself in the center of everything. Then we turn away from the living God, we feel like God is not necessary anymore. We lose our interior life. That should not happen. We must listen constantly to the Word of God and keep humility in our heart, not to harden the heart. Let’s reflect: Are we keeping our heart humble to remain co-heirs with Christ?
Wednesday 11 January
Wednesday of week 1 in Ordinary Time First reading - Hebrews 2:14-18 The incarnation of the second person of Trinity, the son has changed our being. Son became man so that every man and woman can become son and daughter of God. Moreover, Jesus becoming truly human gives us all something special in everything we do, and we are. Whatever we feel and we share, Jesus shared it equally except sin which is against God. He felt everything we feel, and He went through everything we are going through. So, in whatever situation we find ourselves, Jesus is close to us as compassionate and trustworthy companion. Even death is conquered as Jesus is risen from death and we follow Him. So by incarnation, God wanted to walk with us and share everything with us. Not only that, but He also wanted to repair all our shortcomings as we walk. He atones my sins. Let’s reflect: How far we are aware about the fact that Jesus equally shares with us our life and atones for our sins?
Tuesday 10 January
Tuesday of week 1 in Ordinary Time First reading - Hebrews 2:5-12 Jesus experienced everything we have to experience so that we can be part of His glory. God wanted to give back the joy to which we were created and which we lost with our sin. When the humanity chooses to move away from God with the choices contrary to God, we lost our glory to be with God. When Jesus Christ with His choice to become one among us, like us, and to make our destiny His destiny, the whole thing changed. He did the reparation for our sins and our choices. Our errors were corrected through his suffering. Our sins were repaired through his suffering. Jesus Christ redeemed us. His suffering saved us. Because in His suffering, He eliminated the role of ego and selfishness. We made the wrong choices not to suffer and we erred. Jesus loved us and decided to suffer for us to make right our errors. With His love He saved us. His love which purifies our selfish love with His sacrifice sanctifies us. Jesus Christ is the center of our life. Let’s reflect: It’s important to understand the role of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ in our life to make our love selfless.
Monday 9 January
Monday of week 1 in Ordinary Time First reading - Hebrews 1:1-6 “he has spoken to us through his Son”. God the Father has spoken to us through his only Son. What did he speak? He spoke how much we are important to him. He made his son to be one among us so that he can talk to us. How profound is this mystery! He was happy with the prophets whom he sent to us. But he wanted to love us more. So he sent his Son. And the Son did something every important that we can talk to the Father. He has destroyed the defilement of sin so that we can talk to the Father through him. The son is now at the right hand of divine Majesty. So, the question now is, “how do you respond? God has spoken. He has spoken to us. So, how do you respond? We start responding by recognizing the Son. Let’ reflect: Are we really aware of the fact that God has spoken to us through his Son?