Spirituality - being true to Christ

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

February 7, 2023: Genesis 1:20 - 2:4a; Mark 7: 1-13

The Word today invites us to understand the true Christ-ian spirituality. Spirituality itself is a sense of being connected to everything and everybody... and further still, Christ's or Christ-like or 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. It cannot be merely a dry or rigid performance of rituals or lifeless obedience to rules and commandments.

Christ's spirituality consists predominantly of love: which is to go out of one's way to make the other happy; 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 think, you would fit in, you are very well on your way towards mastering Christ's spirituality.

Christ is the visible image of the invisible God, an image presented to us to understand how we need to Grow. Jesus lived his image to the full and invites us today to live our image to the full too! When we grow to be true to the image that Christ presents, we shall grow truly Spiritually.