A call to Sacred Interiority

WORD 2day: Wednesday, 11th week in Ordinary time

June 21, 2023: 2 Corinthians 9: 6-11; Matthew 6: 1-6,16-18

Interiority - that is the key to understand the Word today, while the world keeps shouting out to us, "Get Noticed!" Much of the Spiritual journey is made in the portals of interiority, that is why in today's culture there is so little space for true spirituality. 

The capacity to live on the basis of one's personal convictions formed out of concrete experiences and wise judgements, guided and illumined by the inner light of the Spirit of God, is what we understand to be Interiority. Cheerful giving, silent piety, hidden alms, secret sacrifices, serene spiritual life... these are a few signs of interiority that the Word points out to us today. A few more we could think of are, hopeful spirit, realistic optimism, humble gratitude, genuine fellowship, unconditional forgiveness, simple behaviour, reflective thinking, compassionate listening, and so on. 

A person of interiority is like a still spring and a silent stream, they appear still and silent, but there is life within them. They look quiet and ordinary, but within them resides the powerful Spirit of the all powerful God. I know, I have become a bit too philosophical in today's sharing, but interiority takes you by force, it drags you in and tethers your mind around something that you cannot speak enough about. That is why great sages of our tradition have spoken very little and mostly in aphorisms; that is why Jesus spoke always in parables and metaphors. 

Let this call guide our day today: the call to a sacred interiority!