11th, February, ThursdayI. Gen 2: 18-25
II. Mk 7: 24-30
Theme: Necessity is the mother of invention.
In today’s Gospel reading, compassion is the response of a mother whose desire is to show her daughter’s life. The mother is not of the Jewish tradition or faith, but has heard of this Jesus and his command even over the unclean spirits.
We hear the cry for help from a loving mother for her daughter and she has crossed over the boundaries into Israel to whom Jesus has been sent and to whom he is to feed the Children. The mother has a clever come back when Jesus remarks that he has come first to feed Israel. She responds with a verbal invention which her necessity provokes. She will gladly eat the saving crumbs from the table of the Jews, if only her daughter would be clean.
We are aware that there are many personal, national and international necessities with which we come to the feet of Jesus. We have found when we come to pray with Jesus, he seems to be at our side and is providing us of his blessings and encouraging us to be more and more peaceful with ourselves. He invites us to cast out and put aside our unclean spirits. Worries can be the mother of discouragement and isolation. Prayer is a meeting with God’s grace that reinvents our spirit and our graced life. We are being invited to a change of heart. Only we know the changes being asked of us. Let us pray to Jesus to help us to be open to change as he was with this loving Mother.
Bro. Ruban SMM
II BTH