DB NOVENA - DAY 6

Don Bosco Novena - day 6

27th January, 2015

WORD 2day: 27th January, 2015

The one absolute: God's Will

Heb 10:1-10; Mk 3: 31-35

Yesterday I was talking to a group of children about 'Vocation' and I was trying to drive home to them the fact that every one of us is called, each of us has a vocation; that we are all here on a purpose and God wants us to achieve that purpose. One smart boy raised a question: but how will we know what God wants us to do? 

Truly speaking, can we ever know for sure, what God wants of us? 

If we can stay tuned to God's voice and God's promptings, we would at any given moment make choices and decisions in keeping with God's will for us then and there. What is needed for this is a disposition that the readings today give us: Behold, I come to do your will. It is this readiness to do God's will that makes Mary the first disciple of Christ, more than merely the biological mother that she was to Jesus! The fundamental disposition is to never lose sight of that one absolute, in relation to which all our choices and decisions have to be made: God's Will, and a total surrender to it.

DB NOVENA - DAY 5

THE WORD AND THE SAINT

Sts  Timothy and Titus: 26th January, 2015

2 Tim 1: 1-8; Lk 10: 1-9

Timothy and Titus are two models we are presented with today.  They were both finds of St. Paul on his journeys. Inspiring the listeners to make a life choice is a special gift that some are given with. St. Paul possessed this and used it well for the Reign of God. Timothy and Titus join the great band of apostles that Jesus initiated.

Today the call remains open. The Reign is yet to be made visibly present in the world today. Every baptised person is entrusted with the task of establishing the Reign of God and what is your response? Do examples such as Timothy's and Titus' impel us towards action?