Sanctity: Doing my part!

WORD 2day: Saturday, 21st week in Ordinary time

August 31, 2019: 1 Thessalonians 4: 9-11; Matthew 25: 14-30

‘To aspire to live quietly, to mind your affairs and to work with your own hands’, is the practical tip for peaceful living that St. Paul gives his spiritual children at Thessalonica. It seems that gossip and judgments about others has been a problem for centuries on.

Uncharitable curiosity about others’ lives, passing judgments and spreading prejudices about others, looking out for an opportunity to blame my negligences and failures on someone else, villainising someone merely because I do not agree with him or her – these are fast becoming “normal” in a society that is influenced by a maddening media craze!

Yesterday, the Word invited us to reflect on personal sanctification. However, holiness does not consist of my private life alone, it involves my social relations, my willingness towards contributing my mite to the social order and my commitment towards making this world a better place to live! 

A mentality like, I care nothing until it concretely hurts me, coupled with the inhuman tendency to seek self-centered goals at any cost, is doing all the damage possible to the world today. It looks like we are acrimoniously endangering humanity and accelerating its end at a demonic speed.

It is no reason or moment to lose heart. However little, let us do our part, so that the Lord may rejoice in us, and address us, “Good and faithful servants!”