August 29, 2010

My dear people of Hope, Jesus’ disciples should manifest their love in loving their enemies, in giving without expecting a return; they should not even expect gratitude. So Jesus says, when you have a feast, invite the poor, the blind, the cripple and those who cannot pay you back. For, “if you do good to those who do good to you, what thanks can you expect? For even sinners do that much.”

Christ invites us today to his heavenly banquet. We are the poor the lame and the blind that we cannot
pay the Lord for his invitation. Jesus advises us to be humble as he himself was humble: ‘learn from me for I am gentle and humble of heart’. (Mt. 11:29) St. Francis de Sales says: “True humility makes no pretence of being humble, and scarcely ever utters words of humility”. Jesus is our model: ‘I have given you an example, so that you may copy what I have done for you.’ (Jn. 13:15) Jesus’ top concern was to do God’s will and to serve man. As Christians let us, therefore, cultivate the sense of priority: the first place for God, then our neighbor and lastly ourselves. That will help us to practice true Christian charity.

Happy Sunday
Every Wednesday Adoration to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament 7:30am-8:20am.

Fr. Seno