Friday of week 22 in Ordinary Time
Saint Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa)
First reading Colossians 1:15-20
In today’s passage, Saint Paul gives us one of the most profound Christological hymns of the New Testament: Christ is “the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation… all things were created through him and for him.” Here the mystery of Christ is laid bare. He is not only the Savior of the world but also its origin and center. The universe itself holds together in Him; creation has its meaning and destiny in Him. Yet this cosmic Christ is also the crucified Christ, who reconciles all things through the blood of His cross. The Church, as His Body, draws its life from Him, who is the Head, ensuring that her mission is inseparable from His person. On this day we recall Saint Teresa of Calcutta, who lived this truth with radical simplicity: seeing Christ in the poorest of the poor, serving Him in the broken and abandoned. To contemplate Christ as Head of the Church is not an abstract theology but a call to recognize that everything, our faith, our service, our hope, flows from Him and must return to Him, for in Him “all the fullness was pleased to dwell.” Let’s reflect: Do I truly recognize Christ as the Head and center of all creation and of the Church, letting my life, my service, and my hope flow from Him and return to Him?
Don Giorgio