Friday of week 19 in Ordinary Time
Saint Stephen of Hungary
Gospel – Matthew 19:3-12
“It is not everyone who can accept what I have said, but only those to whom it is granted. There are eunuchs born that way from their mother’s womb, there are eunuchs made so by men and there are eunuchs who have made themselves that way for the sake of the kingdom of heaven”. The different vocations in our life are all about serving the will of God. Whether it’s a marriage life or it’s a consecrated life, the motive is the same. That’s to carry out the will of God. In marriage it’s to show the unity which God wanted in a man-woman relationship in marriage. In the consecrated life, it’s to testimony the Kingdom of God. The former shows unity in marriage as the plan of God. The latter shows how the Kingdom of heaven transforms the life of a person. This is a gift of God. So, in both cases, whether it’s the unity in the marriage or the testimony in a consecrated life, depends on the relationship to God by this individual. When it’s made personal devoid of God, personal plans appear in this and damages everything. Let’s reflect: How much I relate my vocation to my personal relationship to Jesus Christ?
Don Giorgio