TUESDAY, TWENTY FOURTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Our Lady of Sorrows
Heb 5, 7-9 Ps 31:1-4, 14-15, 19 Jn 19: 25-27 or Lk 2: 33-35
LOVE IN THE MIDST OF TRIAL
In the letter to the Hebrews, we see Jesus’ ability to sympathize with us despite being sinless. Sin blinds us and traps us in our selfishness, pride, or violence. We are unable to see these realities clearly and we get too entangled in the situation. A person deeply involved with violence cannot clearly grasp its reality. In the case of Jesus, he never sinned. He could see selfishness, pride, and violence in its full extent. Jesus did experience temptation, suffering, rejection, and human weakness. Hebrews 4:15 tells us that Jesus “…has been tested as we are, yet is without sin.” His sinlessness does not distance Him from us. Instead, he feels a deep compassion and desire to help us. He invites us to receive healing and transformation as we open our lives to the working of the Holy Spirit. Let us ask: which areas of my life would I like to surrender to the Holy Spirit today?
Sin clouds our judgment. A selfish person does not really grasp selfishness, but they are trapped inside it. Jesus, who was free from sin, understands selfishness, pride, and violence in its true nature. Jesus’ freedom from sin, gave him sharper insight into sin’s destructiveness. In his earthly life, he entered into the human condition of betrayal, injustice, cruelty, abandonment, and death. To put it succinctly, true understanding does not always come from committing an act. It comes from love. Jesus’ perfect love gave Him a deeper grasp of our human brokenness that sin created. Let us reflect: Is there any person that I can think of today whom I can speak lovingly to or care for by my actions?
In John 19:25–27, Mary is standing by the Cross and receives the beloved disciple as her son. This shows us that amid suffering, love creates a new family of faith and care. Amid my own trials, how can I let my trust in God, love for others and care for creation, guide my response to God?
Response: Save me, O Lord, in your merciful love.
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