WORD 2day: Thursday, 7th week in Ordinary time
February 27, 2025 - Sirach 5:1-10; Mark 9: 41-50
The Word today is quite hard and as soon as we hear it we feel like saying, this is an old teaching, too rigorous and too bleak in hope. But as the wisdom of Sirach warns us, it can turn into an excuse for not changing oneself. We could have, in the name of modernity and culture, over the centuries lost some fundamental sense of faithfulness to the One, the Truth and the Goodness.
The Lord knows the ďeepest of our thoughts and the most secret of our intentions. It is not possible to fake allegiance to the Lord as people do to each other. The Lord cannot be one of the options, that when all is done we have resort to the Lord. We say we trust in the Lord, but when? Maybe, when everything else is out of question and we have exploited all our so-called resources... without realising right from the beginning that all the resources we have, are from the hands of the Lord!
However, the Lord is not only all knowing and compassionate, the Lord is also just and righteous. We would be at fault to think that we can appease the Lord with some legalities, some rituals and some compensations that are peripheral... nothing short of a true intention and a sincere dedication in our efforts to become acceptable in the eyes of the Lord, can make us God's own people!
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