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?
Friday 17 February
