Good morning good people, May the Lord give you peace and health in Holy Spirit.
It is 03rd September 2021.
It is the first Friday of the month dedicated to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. May His mercy and blessing in all we plan and do.
We celebrate the memorial of St Gregory the Great, pope and doctor of the Church.
We reflect on Colossians 1:15-20 and the Gospel of Luke 5:33-39.
St. Paul presents us with a hymn of Christ and His leadership in everything.
Where there is constant tension and rigidity, there are likely to be conflicts and confusion than growth and openness towards something new.
More we recognize the headship and presence of Jesus in everything, we are willing to embrace a way that pleases God. There is no need to reconcile the old and the new. Instead, we need to recognize the new approaches according to signs of the time. To change we all, need to reserve the place of Jesus in our life.
The tension between the outdated and up-to-date can be resolved by recognizing, “Christ Jesus is the image of the unseen God.” Through Christ, we are all saved and become contented. Whenever we undermine the supremacy of Christ in creation, all things, and everything, we create tension between the old and the new way of dialogue with God and relationship with one another.
Peace and reconciliation are experienced by all who acknowledge the one Sacrifice offered by Jesus.
Our fasting is not for our welfare alone but for the community. Our fasting needs to accompany prayer and almsgiving. Jesus overturns the understanding of fasting and the way we need to treat people who are considered unclean and sinful in our community.
Are considering the old as holy, clean, and sacred while looking down on the new as profane, unclean, and sinful?
The time has to move towards what Jesus proposes as new through the Church. Let us not continue to fight holding on to the old and pre-Vatican stuff while we have utterly failed to embrace the insights of Vatican II.
May the Lord give us the courage to accept the Headship of Christ in the Church and in our life. May God bless you.