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Bible Reflections I 29.07.2021- Thursday I Indraya Manna I

Ordinary Time - Week 17

Readings:  

        I - Ex. 40: 16-21, 34-38

    II - Jn. 11: 19-27

St. Martha (Memoria)

JESUS, A FRIEND FOREVER 

“Faithful friends are beyond price; no amount can balance their worth” (Sir. 6: 15) and “whoever finds one finds a treasure” (Sir. 6:14b).  Everyone tends to seek their friend at all times of their life viz. ups and downs, fear and anxiety, happiness and sorrow, joy and pain.  Today the Church remembers St. Martha, the friend of Jesus and sister of Mary and Lazarus.  Jesus, as their friend, besides being a guest, sharing their hospitality, love and joy goes to Bethany to share the suffering of the bereaved friends at the loss of their brother Lazarus. Martha and Mary would have definitely thought of Jesus as we read in the Gospel passage today, as Martha says, “Lord if you had been here, my brother would not have died” and affirms her trust saying, “But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask of Him” and so was it done to her.         

Loyalty, fidelity and faithfulness are the vaning concepts of the current consumeristic reality. Almost all relationship today are either utility based or highly self-centered. In the trending world of change and impermanency God’s love alone is strong and constant as the Scripture says, “I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jer. 31:3).  Jesus is the all-time friend forever as the lyrics of Joseph Scriven’s hymn, “what friend we have in Jesus” goes. 

All we need to do is to get connected with Jesus through our prayer.  In times of grief, pain, trials, temptations, discouragement, betrayal, sorrows and weakness, turn to Jesus, an understanding friend closer to us than the very air we breathe. Let us resolve to accept the forever friendship of Jesus as we celebrate the feast day of his friend Martha who served him with much love and care.

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Indraya Manna - Gospel Reflection

Mark 10: 32-35 (26.05.2021)

Jesus rules out the values proposed by the world to the subservient values of Christian living that enable one to take pride in calling oneself ‘a follower of Jesus’. 

In today’s Gospel according St. Mark, Chapter 10, verses 32 to 45, Jesus is focused about His mission and walks ahead of His disciples and followers, towards Jerusalem to endure suffering, passion and death, for the salvation of the humankind.

The sons of Zebedee, Andrew, and John are keen about getting a place at the right and left hand of Jesus that would give them power and prestige, pomp and glory, reverence and recognition.

Jesus gathers His disciples enlightens and empowers them on the topsy turvy principles of the Kingdom of God. To be a leader is to be a servant; to be the first is to be the last and this is the strategy to inherit a place in the Heavenly Kingdom. During this time of the pandemic, how are we going to serve humanity? Am I going to be a volunteer at the service of the affected? Can I offer material help to the poor who are deprived of their livelihood? Will I offer my prayers in solidarity with the suffering humanity? Or will I ostracize my own family members and neighbors in the name of a pandemic? Let us strive our best to serve in our own little ways and inherit a place in the eternal place in the Kingdom of God.

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