Dry Bones Come Alive!

 

20th week Friday in Ordinary Time

Year One

Ruth 1:1,3-6, 14b-16, 22

Meditation

Dry Bones Come Alive!

Ruth follows her mother-in-law to Judah. The words of Ruth are very inspiring. She says, “Where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God.”  The words of Ruth signify a deeper level of relationship in a family; though her husband had passed away, she is not a Jew’ and the mother-in-law is going back to her native place, but she feels one with her mother-in-law and shows a human love and Love for God. Which is very praiseworthy. A commitment of women not for advantage but for value and for a great relationship.  Most of the relationships in the world are skin deep. They will be good to each other as long as there is advantages and use. Once the need is over, the relationships also end. Ruth shows a different path of commitment and faithfulness in a relationship.

Do we manifest our faithfulness to God in our lives?

Year Two

Ezek 37:1-14

Dry Bones Come Alive!

Life can come from dry bones. At our death, the body decomposes and the bones remain. Even bones become dust after some time. At the word of the Lord, the bones will come alive. We are dust and unto dust we return. Our faith lets us believe that our mortal bodies will be alive and take the form of glorious bodies. This is the promise of the Lord, and he keeps it.

The Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord when I open your graves and bring you up from them. I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live, and I will settle you in your land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord (Ezek 37:12-14).

 

Can bones be alive?

Mt 22:34-40

 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”  He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment.  And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” (Mt 22:34-40).

The teaching of Jesus and the Church is love for God and love for the neighbour.  If you could live a life of love, everything would be ok. It is difficult to love God and our neighbour. The law and rules are known, but it can be a difficult task.  We can make it possible with God’s grace and his help.  May God be our aid in this endeavour.

Who is my God? Who is my neighbour?

Our Lady, Queen and Mother

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