Earn the Food We Eat!

 

21th week Wednesday in Ordinary Time

Year One

1 Thess 2:9-13

Meditation

There are people who beg out of humility and not out of laziness.   Humility because they are dedicated to God, and they depend upon God only and the faithful to whom they serve.  Humility reminds them that they are nothing in this world and God and his mission is ultimate. 

St Paul is reminding the people of Thessalonica that while they were with them, they worked for their bread, and they encouraged them like a father encourages their children to grow in faith and love of Jesus.  It is a great lesson to learn from St Paul that working in the mission means to learn our own livelihood through our work.  Work itself is valuable and every work has to be paid its due.

Do we value work and work to earn our food?

Year Two

2 Thess 3:6-10, 16-18

Earn the Food We Eat!

All the birds and animals in the world earn their food by searching for it. They do not store food. The toil for it to fill themselves.   In the world, some human beings enjoy a lot of good things without even working for them. It is not a surprise that there are people in this world who eat without working. Those who live without basic work for the welfare of others are harmful to society. Let everyone do some work or the other for their own good and the good of others.

It is not below one’s dignity to earn one’s food and contribute to the welfare of others. Not all are working on the farm to produce food. Different people do different types of work to make life in the world go on smoothly. Let everyone contribute to the well-being of society in the best way possible. Idleness is the workshop of the devil. The devil fears the hardworking people. Let one think before eating what good one has done and thank God for the food that is set.

Do we work to build the Kingdom of God?

Mt 22:27-32

People of every age have put the prophets to the test and even killed them.  One need not blame one’s forefathers for doing evil to the prophets; even in this day, people do the same.  We blame generations gone by, while we do the same.  The evil and treacherous inclination is in humans.  One has to realize and work on oneself to be a better person.  The sacraments of the Church and the Word of God help in this transformation of our evil inclinations.  If not, we are like our ancestors, behaving like white washed tombs.  We appear good and inside filth.  Do not be worried about this fact, but with hope in the grace and mercy of God, initiate the way of transformation.

Do we look for conversion of heart?

Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb

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