WORD 2day: Monday, 8th week in Ordinary time
March 3, 2025 - Sirach 17: 20-28; Mark 10:17-27The messages have begun inviting us back home. Soon there will be lent and this message will be all the more stronger. In the first reading we see atleast thrice a term referring to return, repeating itself. And then there is the call the find ou way home to the Lord.
Apart from the invitation to return from the first reading, we see the invitation to follow from the Gospel. In fact the invitation is the same... to get back home to the Father, Jesus is the way back.
The invitation of the Word today, points to the fact that all of us need a home that is permanent; that we belong to a home that is permanent where we are ourselves and not waiting to be invited. Let's heed the invitation of the master and turn back home as early as possible. And the way is, to follow the Lord.
The Reign is our home and let us beware not to distance ourselves from it too long. The love for our home should pull us back from wherever we find ourselves. Come, Come back, Come home invites the Lord - with the right perspectives and right actions, let us get back home, following our loving Lord.