SATURDAY 31ST OCTOBER.
Luke 14, 1.7-11:
“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
There are four realities to which we easily sell ourselves and very easily become their slaves: vanity, power, money and pleasure.
These four realities can cloud our outlook and can lead us to lose the direction of our lives.
Repeatedly in the Gospel, Jesus speaks to us of humility, of not wanting to be served but to serve, of not wanting to be in the forefront but to give ourselves to others from the bottom up.
This is the teaching of today’s Gospel. If you really consider others as your brothers and sisters, you will never want to be above them and you will even be glad that they are above you.
St Teresa of the Child Jesus said: “To respond to your love, I too want to wish that my brothers and sisters would always put me in the last place and convince me that this is precisely my place. I beg you, divine Jesus, to send me a humiliation every time I try to place myself above others”.
Try to live like that because that’s how Jesus lived.
Good day.
Antonio Maria Sanjuan Marin, cmf
