A Spirituality true to Christ

WORD 2day: Tuesday, 5th week in Ordinary time

February 9, 2021: Genesis 1:20 - 2:4a; Mark 7: 1-13

The Word today invites us to understand the true Christian spirituality. Spirituality itself is a sense of being connected to everything and everybody. And further still, Christ's, Christ-like and Christian Spirituality is a sense of feeling an obligation to love people, fend for their good, be interested in their well being and spend oneself for the happiness and well being of the other. 

A true Christ-ian spirituality cannot be merely a dry or rigid performance of rituals and lifeless obedience to rules and commandments. It is about persons and relationships... the person of Christ and one's relationship with him; the persons who are around and one's relationship with them in Christ. It is all about that relationship that cares for each other - in a holistic sense, it is all about love.  

Christ's spirituality consists predominantly of love: which is to go out of one's way to make the other feel cared for; it is to wish the good of the other always in spite of the troubles and inconveniences for oneself. Just imagine if today anyone, even those who claim to love each other, would fit into this definition of love. 

If you would,  you are well on your way in mastering Christ's spirituality.