Are you Steady?

 

6th   Week Wednesday of Ordinary Time

Year One

Gen 8:6-13, 20-22

Meditation

Are you Steady?

Noah opened the ark-built altar and offered the Lord clean animals and birds. After every blessing of God, one should build an altar and give thanks to God. One should approach the altar of God with thanksgiving and adoration. God will accept our thanksgiving and bless us from all harm. God remembered the nature of humans, that from their youth, humans were evil. God decides not to harm humans anymore. God allows the world to go on from generation to generation and for ages. God keeps his promises.

Do we approach the altar of God to give thanks?

Year Two

James 1:19-27

In times of trial and struggle, one has to learn to have the calmness of the mind and mindfulness. Mindfulness and serenity result from fortitude, which is strength in mind, heart, and spirit. To be just, in fact, to oneself and others. To be prudent and use the wisdom given by God and oneself to do right and be good. We must be temperate in everything we do and balance life. These cardinal virtues keep one on the right path with God and others.

Do we try to be steady in what we do?

Gospel: Mk 8:22-26

 They came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village; and when he had put saliva on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, ‘Can you see anything?’ And the man looked up and said, ‘I can see people, but they look like trees, walking.’ Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he looked intently and his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.  Then he sent him away to his home, saying, ‘Do not even go into the village (Mk 8:22-26).

Jesus led the blind man out of the village and began to heal his blindness. We do not know the man’s blindness may have to do something to that village.

 At the end of the gospel, Jesus orders him, ‘Do not even go into the village’. Needless to say, some deficiencies are due to attachment to places, things and people. We need to leave behind everything that does not enable us to improve.

What do you have to leave behind for good?

Fr Putti Anthaiah sdb

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