WORD 2day: Wednesday, 1st week in Ordinary time
January 15, 2025 - Hebrew 2: 14-28; Mark 1: 29-39
The Lord teaches us compassion by his words. He went around preaching and insisted that he has to go to as many as possible, and to the furthest of the limits as possible to preach, because he was convinced he had been sent for that - to bring the love of God, the message of the Reign to as many as possible.
The Lord teaches us by his deeds, as he went around curing and healing all who needed and liberating those who were bound in their spirits. He went to people who were in need, like the mother in law of Peter and he attended to those who came to him from far and wide... what guided him was the compassion he had for the people who were in need.
Not merely by words, and not only by actions, but by his very being the Lord teaches us compassion. As the letter to the Hebrews explains to us, the Lord became completely like his brothers and sisters so that he could be a compassionalte and trustworthy hight priest of God's Holy will.
The message is that on our daily journey, we become more and more attentive to our words, our actions and our very beings, and in and through our every experience we grow to be compassionate in our ways and in our attitudes towards our brothers and sisters; that is the true scope of the journey of faith.