Faithfulness - the mark of God's people
Wednesday, 33rd week in Ordinary Time
2 Mac 7: 1, 20-31; Lk 19: 11-28
These days in India we are going through a silly repression over eating beef, in certain parts of the country. Though the first reading today reminds us of a similar event, for the Maccabean brothers it was not about eating or not eating. It was about their faithfulness to God. They wanted to belong to God and not even at the threat of their life they wished to depart from their ways.
Regardless of our successes and titles we will be judged on the basis of our faithfulness to God and its lack. It does not matter whether we have worked on a little or accomplished great things, but it does matter what our level of faithfulness was! That is why Mother Teresa expressed her conviction in these words: we are called, not to be successful but to be faithful!