Tuesday 12 November
Luke 17, 7-10:
“So with you: When you have done all you have been told to do, say: “We are merely servants, we have done no more than our duty.”
Like the humans we are, we usually think that when we do a good action, that when we spend our time in favour of others, that whenever we give any type of alms…we want to get up on the podium for them to hang a medal round our neck and, if possible, that it be gold.
It was Jesus himself who told us that “do not let your left hand know what your right is doing”.
And he is also the one who today tells us: “When you have done all you have been told to do, say: “We are merely servants, we have done no more than our duty.”
Service is the hallmark of the follower of Jesus, without waiting for medals or laurels.
Whenever we do good, we have to be happy simply because we have done what we had to do as poor and humble servants of the Gospel.
Today ask the Lord for the capacity to love and serve without measure and without expecting anything in return.
Good day.
Antonio Maria Sanjuan Marin, cmf
