Monday in Holy Week
Is 42:1-7; Jn 12:1-11
The message of today’s Gospel is simple and
direct: the time has finally come. The time that we have been waiting for and
preparing ourselves for has finally arrived. We cannot keep postponing any
more. The moment of our conversion is now. The aim of the sacrifices and
penances - our extra effort to pray, our
attention to be a bit more generous and our abstinence and fasting - that we
have been doing throughout these forty days was to facilitate our conversion
towards Jesus.
Today, with Mary we are to pour our whole
selves and anything that is dear to us generously onto Jesus’s feet. Keeping
nothing for ourselves and giving up all that is keeping us from turning towards
God. We might be tempted, like the Pharisees to direct our attention elsewhere,
to postpone our act of generosity towards Jesus. We might be tempted to wait
for a better moment to amend our life, perhaps that moment when it really comes
from the heart or when we know that it would have more lasting effects. Perhaps
we might not feel much in the mood of it yet and on and on, like those who wait
for the perfect time to trade in stocks and shares on Wall Street.
But business with Jesus follows a
completely different logic. We can see this already in the first reading, where we read part of what is known as the Song of the Suffering Servant. Jesus does not
come in pomp but in humility; he does not come with a lot of noise but quietly; he does not force himself upon us but rather invites us towards him.
In these words of Isaiah we see Jesus himself who came to:
come in pomp but in humility; he does not come with a lot of noise but quietly; he does not force himself upon us but rather invites us towards him.
In these words of Isaiah we see Jesus himself who came to:
To open the eyes of the blind,So today we are asked to reflect upon the generous act that Mary did of pouring the precious perfumed oil on Jesus's feet. What part of myself am I still keeping to myself and which I still refuse to give to God? What can be the next move that I need to do to make this possible even if I am finding it too hard to do so?
to bring out prisoners from confinement,
and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.
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