THE WORD AND THE SAINT
January 31, 2023: Celebrating St. John Bosco, the Shepherd of the YoungHebrews 12: 1-4; Mark 5: 21-43
Arise, run and endure is the call today! Situations of death and darkness, moments of drowning spirit and desperate feelings, struggle between right knowledge and raging temptations... these abound in our daily life. But we are called to Arise from these landslips and Run the race that is alloted to us, with an Endurance that is ready to put up with any difficulty, even upto shedding blood.
The endurance comes from the hope that Our God is an awesome God and can do anything for us. The strength to run the race comes from the faith that the Lord our God is running along and is ever present by our side. The capacity to arise comes from the love that God showers on us, out of which God keeps holding my hand inspite of all situations and keeps whispering into my ears, my son, my daughter, my child, my friend... arise! This is the experience of perpetual rejuvenation that faith offers to those who are in God.
Don Bosco, was gifted with that perpetual youthfulness! He could arise, run and endure endlessly in life, because he was in God! That total attachment to God and to God's will, made him so youthful that he could identify with the young readily and the young found in him an extraordinary shepherd, a shepherd who knew and had the smell of his sheep. May his intercession help us to experience continuously this rejuvenation from the Lord and may it make us compassionate and empathetic to the youth around us. Let us pray for the grace to ceaselessly arise, run and endure.
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