With heads held high...

WORD 2day: Thursday, last week in Ordinary time

November 27, 2025: Daniel 6: 12-28; Luke 21: 20-28

Living with heads held high, is a deep imagery offered to us by the Word today. These days in India the film "Face of the Faceless" is doing its rounds... and there is so much effort to spread it across to the viewers. It is about Sr. Rani Maria - the humble convinced servant of the Reign who sacrificed her life, generating a faith experience for a whole lot of people around - be it her offender, her family and all others who witnessed the event and the process. 

More names like that - the great recently canonised Oscar Romero, a household name - Mother Teresa, much less known Mrs. Gladys Staines or another recent addition - Fr. Stan Swami... these names and the persons attached are "great" not for some kind of power they wielded or prominent posts they held, but for the endurance they had! The threats and violence and opposition that surrounded them never managed to swallow them in. Because they lived with their heads held high.

Daniel in the first reading today and Jesus himself from the Gospel, are offered as Biblical models for living with heads held high... never losing sight of that source, from where our help comes. Our help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth - those are familiar lines for us. Let it not remain a mere phrase, but a real conviction that come what may, I can stand tall, stand tall with my head held high. Because I do not depend on this world or even the best of my well wishers that I find here on earth! They are my sources of sustenance, in as much as the One who us ultimately concerned about me, has ordained this persons, circumstances and systems to be of assistance to me!

Yes, my help comes from the Lord, and from the Lord alone! Hence, even in the worst of my situations, I can never lose hope! Amidst all the struggles of our daily life, we can live with our heads held high!