Title: Meditation: Monday, January 28, 2002
The Catholic Calendar for Monday, January 28, 2002
Saint Thomas Aquinas, religious, priest and doctor of the Church
Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
2 Samuel 5:1-7
Psalm 89:20-22,25-26
Mark 3:22-30
A Reflection on Today's Scripture:
Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness. Mark 3:29
Physical blindness is surely a difficult cross to bear, but God has made
the human spirit able to rise above adversities. Those so afflicted
develop their other senses to compensate for what they lack; thus they
embrace life to become productive, happy and thankful people.
Spiritual blindness, however, is a terminal illness. It attacks the soul
of a person in such a way that he does not realize his wretched state
and so fails to seek the help he needs so desperately. Such individuals
become their own little gods, self-righteous and self-centered; they
think themselves above and in control of all who inhabit their little
world. They possess none of the God-given love and truth in which they
were created by Him to live. Such was the state of those who rejected
Jesus, their awaited Messiah.
Although they had witnessed Christ healing the sick, delivering the
demon possessed and raising the dead, they were unable to see that the
good He did could come only from God Himself. Neither could they see
that His message was the definitive means of bringing peace and justice
into this world through the repentance of sin and the rebirth and
regeneration of humanity by their participation in God's own life.
Theirs was a deadly, unforgivable sin because they had shut their hearts
to receiving God's saving Word and turned others away from seeking
Christ's salvation. Their blindness totally dishonored God and
blasphemed Him by attributing what Jesus said and did -- to the "evil
one."
Saving God,
open wide the eyes of our hearts,
that we may never lose sight of You:
Your love, truth and glory.
Amen.
- Marie L. Bocko, ocds ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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