Readings
I - Is. 55: 10-11
II - Mt. 6: 7-15
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Today we celebrate the International Women’s Day. A day when the world recalls the values, capacity, capabilities, importance and dignity of women with appreciation and affirmation. There will be an umpteen number of organised programmes highlighting the qualities of woman right from her life to death; the wishes, poems, shorts, video clippings and the animated images the social media carry, my God! All a day’s show only! If this celebration inspire and induce one to respect the role and dignity of woman, then the celebration has achieved its purpose. If not, it is going to be a mere hypocrisy.
In the Gospel passage of the day, Jesus asks the disciples not to heap words while praying like that of the hypocrites but to be religious in living the daily life in accomplishing God’s will and forgiving each other for a happy living here on the earth. As we celebrate the women’s day, give up the hypocrisy of mere celebration; and appreciate and respect the role and dignity of women. The creation of man and woman is so beautiful that one cannot exist without the other. No one is great or small, but equal in complimenting each other. May our mind and heart resonate with the prayer: “Lord Jesus, lead us not into the temptation of hypocritical living”.
