October 3, 2024 Thursday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Daily Readings: Job 19:21-27; Mark 1:15
Have you ever travelled not carrying or bringing much with you? Didn’t it feel more relaxing? There’s really less hassle especially during transit.
But many of us do not travel light. If we can only bring more, we would.
Our Gospel today reminds us that in our Christian journey, we are not to bring any—not even our sandals, not even a small bag. We are being reminded that if we truly want to grow in our Christian faith, that if we want to journey with Jesus, we need to give up even the most important thing to us. We can’t walk the way of Jesus and stay attached to convenience, ambition, power and all our self-centered motives.
The first reading tells us that all that we have are just passing because in the end only God can fill our longing.
So, while the world tells us to work hard and to have more for ourselves, our Christian faith is calling us to work hard not for ourselves but so we can do our mission relying solely on God’s grace. This is what it means to be alive – reliance on the provision of God as we fulfill our mission.
Call to Action for Catholic Living: The psalm beautifully says it. “I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.” We put our confidence in the Lord.
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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