WORD 2day: Friday, 7th week in Ordinary time
February 28, 2025 - Sirach 6:5-17; Mark 10:1-12
It is not rules, regulations and rituals that are at the center of Christian life and practice, but persons, community and relationships. Genuine and sincere relationships at all levels is the true sign of Christian faith.
Relationships are a mark that proves that a person is mature - because the person is able to think beyond oneself, is capable of looking beyond one's own likes and dislikes, or needs and wants, and is able to accommodate the other into one's own world. This is the psycho-social truth of human reality. This is equally true on a spiritual plane and much more so from a Christian perspective. We know how Jesus cyrstalised all law and prophets in one simple command - the command to love.
The Word today invites us to reflect on two long standing relationships in any person's life: Friendship and Marriage! In both these what is expected of a person is faithfulness, to be sincere, genuine, authentic and integral. A faithful friend is a sure shelter and beyond price; whoever has found one has found a rare treasure! Instead of beginning to search you friendlist for the one who is such to you, begin thinking: to whom are you such a treasure! It is high time today, specially for the younger generation, to leave the portals of the virtual friendship and enter into true, life changing, long standing, meaning giving relationships.
Another insight this reflection can leave us with is the fact that these two above mentioned relationships (friendship and marriage) have been used as metaphors for our relationship with God - that is a crucial call too, to care about and focus on developing a personal relationship on a daily basis with the person of Christ, the image of the invisible God.
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