The Word and the Saint: Remembering Pope St. John Paul II
Monday, 29th week in Ordinary time
October 22, 2018: Ephesians 2:1-10; Luke 12: 13-21
October 22, 2018: Ephesians 2:1-10; Luke 12: 13-21
The tendency today is to fend so much for tomorrow, that today is totally sacrificed. People seem to be so busy photographing the present moment for memory, that they fail to live the present in its entirety. There is so much of worries about the future that we in fact are all the time living our tomorrows at the cost of today.
I remember a funny incident where I met two boys, one happy and the other sad, but both for the same reason. The first was happy because he had three days of holidays from school; the second was sad because after three days they have to go back to school! People concentrate so much on the difficulties they have or they might have, forgetting the loads of joy that is left unattended.
Life is given to us to live, and not to worry. If only we are convinced that we belong to God, our worries about tomorrow will be mellowed down, to allow us live our present to the full. If today we are called to render an account of our life, would we be able to say we have lived it fully? We remember today Pope St. John Paul II, a modern saint in all measures... his sanctity consisted in his love for people, specially the youth, in his capacity to draw people to God, to the Church and to holiness, in his total dedication to live his life to the full despite the conditions of control and aggression that stood around. The way he lived through his suffering the last years of his Papacy, we were many of us witnesses to it!
I remember a funny incident where I met two boys, one happy and the other sad, but both for the same reason. The first was happy because he had three days of holidays from school; the second was sad because after three days they have to go back to school! People concentrate so much on the difficulties they have or they might have, forgetting the loads of joy that is left unattended.
Life is given to us to live, and not to worry. If only we are convinced that we belong to God, our worries about tomorrow will be mellowed down, to allow us live our present to the full. If today we are called to render an account of our life, would we be able to say we have lived it fully? We remember today Pope St. John Paul II, a modern saint in all measures... his sanctity consisted in his love for people, specially the youth, in his capacity to draw people to God, to the Church and to holiness, in his total dedication to live his life to the full despite the conditions of control and aggression that stood around. The way he lived through his suffering the last years of his Papacy, we were many of us witnesses to it!
The question in the final analysis is, amidst all the concerns and possible worries of life, can I become more loving? Can I become more caring? Can I become more merciful? Can I become more faith filled? Can I become more human? Can I become more godly?
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