July 20, Thursday of the 15th week in Ordinary Time
Daily Readings: Exodus 3: 13-20, Ps 104: 1 and 5, 8-9, 24-25, 26-27, Matthew 11: 28-30
The most pervasive illness in today’s society isn’t cancer, malaria or the flu. It’s exhaustion. Otherwise healthy people spend their days struggling to make it through until bedtime which gets later every day. Modern forms of communication mean we can watch news happen in real time and we can communicate with people on the other side of the world almost instantaneously. We no longer have to wait for a messenger, letter, or newspaper to arrive. The immediacy has changed people’s expectations. They grow impatient of they don’t get a response or solution with equal speed. Our jobs invade every hour of our day, with resulting damage to family life. Pressure increases and we start believing that this is the way life supposed to be.
But today’s Gospel reminds us that this frenetic pace is not what God desires for us. God calls us to step away from the pressures of daily life and rest in him. For God, the immediacy is love. We can all take a moment to be more patient with others, to limit our demands on those who work with us, and to let love, not the clock, rule our lives.
Radio Veritas Asia (RVA), a media platform of the Catholic Church, aims to share Christ. RVA started in 1969 as a continental Catholic radio station to serve Asian countries in their respective local language, thus earning the tag “the Voice of Asian Christianity.” Responding to the emerging context, RVA embraced media platforms to connect with the global Asian audience via its 21 language websites and various social media platforms.
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