Tuesday 4 October
Saint Francis of Assisi Tuesday of week 27 in Ordinary Time Gospel - Matthew 11:28-30 “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth…and revealed them to little children”. Jesus underlines the value of little children. St. Francis followed Jesus in this understanding. He found meaning for everything around him. Because he always put what he found in the center and not himself. This is the yoke Jesus is suggesting us to take on. This is the meekness Jesus is asking us to learn. This is the gentleness Jesus is asking us to practice. Understanding the meaning and value of everything around you. Today the question is: “How many things around me, I am not valuing at all?
Monday 3 October
Monday of week 27 in Ordinary Time Gospel - Luke 10:25-37 “moved with compassion when he saw him. He went up and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them” We are also often feel compassion but we don’t go up to the person. When we hear a sad story, when we see a person who is suffering, we feel compassion. But we are not moved by compassion. We don’t go up to that person. Our compassion remains in our heart. Because if we want to open our heart and let the compassion move us, we must share our oil and wine. We must share our time and resources. Instead, we fill our heart with compassion. That is also for a reason, this filling of your heart with compassion gives you a false satisfaction of reacting in a Christian way to that situation. This is not true, unless you let your compassion move you to concrete sharing of yourself, this compassion is not Christian compassion. Question is, am I filling my heart with hollow compassion which stays there or with Christian compassion which moves me?
Sunday 2 October
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time The Holy Guardian Angels Gospel - Luke 17:5-10 “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,”. These words are so radical. To be uprooted from where I am, from where I feel at home, from where I am happy, from where I think that I am giving fruits, and to be planted in the sea where I fear I will be drowned, I fear I cannot put my roots, I fear I cannot give fruits. This move is radical. This move needs the faith, a radical faith. Faith which helps you to do accept this challenge, faith which gives you the strength to be uprooted, faith which gives you the confidence to be planted in the sea. This faith comes when you find yourself part of Him who called you. This faith comes when you find yourself servant of whom you are part of. You don’t have an identity. You belong to Him. You abandon yourself in Him. This faith is that which gives you the strength to be uprooted from where you are and to planted wherever.
Saturday 1 October
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin, Doctor Saturday of week 26 in Ordinary Time Gospel - Luke 10:17-24 “for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children”. Why is the joy of heaven hidden to the learned and revealed to the children? The joy of heaven is revealed to those who can welcome the sweetness of the present without any calculations. Children can welcome the present moment and all the joy of the present moment without making any calculations of personal gains. This welcoming of the grace of every moment in our life is every important. This welcoming of the grace of each moment is only possible if you can abandon yourself into the hand of God who loves you. This abandon is realized in prayer. This abandon becomes a program of life in contemplation. This abandon becomes a decision in life every moment in recognizing that Happy the eyes that see what I see in Eucharist, for I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what I see in Eucharist, and never saw it; to hear what you hear in the Word of God, and never heard it