Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop
Friday of week 32 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 17:26-37
“Anyone who tries to preserve his life will lose it; and anyone who loses it will keep it safe.”. This is a logic which is difficult to understand. Those who tries to preserve his life will lose it and those who loses it will keep it safe. Trying to preserve your life, you will destroy your life and trying to give it away, you will gain the life. There should be something special about this “life”, which makes it self-destructive when you try to protect it for yourselves. It should have something which makes it self-protective when you try to give it for others. This speciality of the life is that our life is meant to be lived for others. Not for ourselves. Whenever we try to live for the other, our life opens to breathe and whenever we try to live for ourselves, we suffocate our life. Our selfishness kills our life. Our love for the other protects our life. And when we live for God, we open our life to its maximum. How much am I aware about the logic of life that it must be lived for others?
Friday 11 November
