St. Maximilian Kolbe
Readings:
Ezekiel 9:1-7,10:18-22
Matthew 18:15-20
Reflection:
We’re all making something. Some people are making sadness, thinking about what they’ve been through, what wasn’t fair, and who they lost. That’s drawing in more sadness, more discouragement. Other people are making worry, playing all the negative thoughts over and over in their minds. “What if it doesn’t work out? What if I don’t get well?” That’s drawing in more stress, more heaviness. When sadness, discouragement, and selfishness take over a person, they find that even parents, brothers, sisters, friends, and God are not on the list, leading to relationships breaking. I don’t have time to pray, I don’t have time to make a call or I don’t have time to spend with you.
Why don’t you start making melody in our hearts to the Lord? Start having a song of praise inside like saying, “Lord, thank You that You’re restoring relationships to me.” Forgiving others and accepting others as they are becoming a possible task when we have a melody in our hearts. The words of Jesus are very true, “whatever you lose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Are we creating an atmosphere of doubt, worry, and mediocrity? Or are you creating an atmosphere of praise, victory, and abundance? We need to gather in Jesus’ name and know He is in our midst. We need the other to have Jesus; if we start losing them, we will end up in a situation where it is. I, Me and Myself.
Jesus, I will let go of my selfishness, sadness, discouragement and numerous negativities and add up persons, prayers and sing songs of melody. We can say like St. Maximilian Kolbe “A single act of love makes the soul return to life.”
Sony Marsilin Kannanaikal CP is a Passionist priest; he lives at St.Gabriel’s Community, Endeavour Hills.