Friday, May 27, 2016
Tuesday, 8th Week in Ordinary Time
24 May 2016
Tuesday, 8th Week in Ordinary Time
Our Lady of the Wayside
Green.
1 Pt 1:10 –16 / Mk 10: 28 – 31
Madonna della Strada (Our Lady of the Wayside) is a small shrine just outside Rome which the Society of Jesus received as its first parish.
From the 1st Reading: 1 Pt 1: 13 – 16
So, then, let your spirit be ready. Be alert, with confident trust in the grace you will receive when Jesus Christ appears. Like obedient children, do not return to your former life given over to ignorance and passions. Imitate the one who called you. As he is holy so you, too, be holy in all your conduct, since Scripture says: Be holy for I am holy.'
Gospel Reading: Mk 10: 28 - 31
Peter spoke up and said, "We have given up everything to follow you." Jesus answered, "Truly, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children, or lands for my sake and for the Gospel, who will not receive his reward. I say to you: even in the midst of persecution he will receive a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands in the present time and in the world to come eternal life. Do pay attention: Many who now are first will be last, and the last, first."
Reflection?
"We have given up everything to follow you." What does it mean to give up everything?
For some, such as missionaries and religious, it is literally leaving home and family, and even material things, to do the work of God.
For others, it is giving up what is held dear and familiar, whether it be wealth that one shares with those in need, or status in society by proclaiming and living by one's principles and beliefs despite losing popularity with one's peers.
There are "rewards" for such acts of love, and self-denial, and service. Jesus assures the disciples that the reward of giving up everything to follow Jesus are a hundredfold of whatever one has given up. Certainly our greatest reward is in Heaven, but the peace and joy of living a blessed life of following Christ is a reward in itself.
Are there some things in my life that I should give up to grow deeper in my knowledge and love of Jesus?
WE PRAY FOR MTQ DAILY PRAYER DIARY INTENTIONS:
BIRTHDAY
Elizabeth Go
IN MEMORIAM (+)
Henry Choa
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