February 08, 2016
Monday, 5th Week in
Ordinary Time
1st Reading:
1 Kgs 8: 1-7. 9-13
Gospel: Mk 6:53–56
Having crossed the lake, they came ashore at Gennesaret where they tied up the boat. As soon as they landed, people recognized Jesus and ran to spread the news throughout the countryside. Wherever he was they brought to him the sick lying on their mats. And wherever he went, to villages, towns or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplace and begged him to let them touch just the fringe of his cloak. And all who touched him were cured.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
We are stewards of creation yet we abused our power of stewardship by maltreating the created world. We have violated the sun by destroying the ozone layer, disturbed the heavens by polluting the skies with toxic gases, devastated the earth by abusing its resources, and ravaged the dry land by our indiscriminate cutting of trees, not to mention the diggings of miners and excavations of treasure hunters.
One of the adverse outcomes is the emergence of new kinds of sickness. The world has never known of so much malignant diseases as today. Would God still be the generous healer as in biblical times? He is and will always be. God’s only problem is how he could intervene. When we persist in the doing of wrong, God’s hands are tied. He cannot even stop the adverse results of our own wrongdoing from eating us up. Only when we repent and abandon the wrongdoing can God take over.
But repentance goes with restoration and total submission to God’s ways. Restoration of the damage to mother nature is in order. The least we can do is observe our laws that protect the environment. Total submission to God’s ways is also proper. Would you consider a person sincere in asking God in prayer for healing when he also goes to the “spiritists” and quack doctors? It’s amazing how some sick people follow to the letter the instructions of these “spiritists” more than they follow the teachings of the Church. Some “spiritists”, by the way, have made necessary adjustments by incorporating liturgical symbols to their trade. Lately somebody asked me for a small bottle of holy water because his faith healer had asked him to tie it around his waist as ‘talisman’. If one is sincere in his quest for healing from the Lord, he will put full trust in God by undergoing normal medication and praying hard for God’s intervention.
As we ask God to heal us let us mend our ways by realigning our faith to the teachings of the Church and by being good stewards of this created world. – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: [email protected]. Website: www.frdan.org.
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