Friday
12th MarchReadings:
Hos 14: 2-10
Mk 12: 28-34
Theme: God’s loving Relationship
In the First Reading, the prophet
Hosea invites us to turn away from our sins and returning to the LORD.
Once we do that, God will give us new life, and abundant life. We shall
be strong, bear rich fruit, produce a fragrant smell, if we but turn to the
LORD. God continues to say to us, “I will love them unconditionally.”
In the Gospel of today, Jesus
speaks of the greatest commandments: “Love the LORD our GOD with all your
heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. .
.Love your neighbor as yourself.” This is worth more than sacrifices and
rituals.
Love is not just a nice feeling we
have when things are going right. Love is that decision to be there for
the sake of the other. God has proven this love to us by sending Jesus,
the Son of God. It was not always a “nice” feeling, as He proclaimed the
Good News of God’s loving relationship. He was met with opposition.
He ultimately had to lay down His life in order to show how much God wants to
be in relationship with us. And today Jesus reminds us that all God asks
of us is that we freely choose to give all we have to the process of deepening
this relationship with God. We are asked to love – be in relationship
with God with our whole heart (emotions and decision), our whole soul
(spirituality), our whole mind (intellect), and our whole strength (physical
being). The Lord Jesus desires that we are totally and completely in communion
with God.
Bro
Santhosh Prabhu SMM
III
BTH