WORD 2day: Saturday, 4th week in Ordinary time
February 7, 2026 - Kings 3: 4-13; Mark 6: 30-34
"An understanding heart to guide God's people", is what Solomon asks of the Lord... and that is what he was given! We see Jesus, who understood the tiredness of his apostles and counseled them to relax. We see Jesus looking at the people and understanding their need, their thirst, their yearning for life...he was filled with compassion!
Compassion, which comes from the latin terms com (cum) and pati, meaning to have the same feeling as someone, is basically a deep understanding of the other! When someone next to me is undergoing a crisis, when someone in my vicinity is going through a suffering, when persons in front of my eyes are experiencing a situation that stifles their lives... can I really feel with them, can I really suffer with them? That would be compassion!
This is the kind of sensibility that Jesus exhibits, and it is the same sensibility that Christ requires of us - if we wish to call ourselves Christians! In fact, we could without exaggeration say: Compassion is the quality closest to sanctity!
Being Christ-ians, we cannot but be compassionate; like Solomon, we could ask the Lord for this grace, and the Lord will grant us a heart that is wise and understanding, loving and compassionate.
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