Readings:
I - Wis. 1:13-15; 2:23-24
II - 2Cor. 6:7, 9, 13-15
III - Mk. 5:21-43
CARE AND SHARE; LOVE AND LIVE
Our God is God of life. He created all things so that they may exist and not perish is the streamline of all three readings today. Jesus in His care and compassion, shares His power in raising Jairus daughter and in healing the woman who was suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years and restores them back to life. St. Paul in the first reading invites us for sharing, citing the example of Jesus who chose poverty to make the mankind rich and worthy. In caring and sharing, life and humanity is restored in the society.
“The glory of God is human being fully alive” is the maxim of St. St. Irenaeus and the essence of Christianity with the core concepts of care, share, love and live. But when we analyse the current scenario, one takes delight in saving, receiving, hoarding, swindling and accumulating, at the cost of depriving the other even of their basic necessities. This is the cause for illiteracy, ignorance, inequality and injustice in the society. According to St. Paul, in sharing we bring about a ‘fair balance’ in the world that would infuse life and hope to the marginalised and the less fortunate.
There are people like Jairus and the woman, waiting in faith, for the sharing of our time, talent, money and material for their new life of transformation and restoration. Care to share, live to love thereby promote and foster a culture of life around us throbbing in hope and joy. Let us live and let live nurturing the culture of life around us.
