Today - that's the key

WORD 2day: Thursday, Week 1 in Ordinary time

January 12, 2023: Hebrew 3: 7-14; Mark 1: 40-45

By the time we end the Liturgy of the Word today, we would have heard the word 'today' atleast 9 times (from the first reading and the psalm)! In fact, that is the key to the message from the Word today. Any good that we wish to do, any change that we would wish to make in our life, any new beginning we would love to make in our ways - the day to do it is, today; and the time to do it is now! 

There is no virtue in glorying in the past that is far gone and no use in waiting for an opportune future! It would either end in ego trips or in idealistic inaction. Instead we are challenged to act now and act today. When that person with leprosy approached Jesus, he cured him then and there! Jesus was not thinking of a justification as from the past experience whether he should do it or not; whether he should seriously consider the situation of so many who were affected in the society at that time and how he would reach out to all of them... those were questions that never mattered to him. What mattered was the person in front of him, who stood in need of a healing touch, a compassionate caress, a loving embrace - and Jesus gave it right then and right there. 

Interestingly Don Bosco would often say, do all the good you can, when you still have the time! If we wish you wish to do something good, let's do it TODAY!