Gospel: Mark
1:14-20
After
John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the Gospel of God: “This
is the time of fulfilment. The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe
in the Gospel.”
As he
passed by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their
nets into the sea; they were fishermen. Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and
I will make you fishers of men.” Then they left their nets and followed him. He
walked along a little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his
brother John. They too were in a boat mending their nets. Then he
called them. So they left their father Zebedee in the boat along with the hired
men and followed him.
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Reflection:
A man had
a dream of a death experience. Thus he dreamt being ushered into a dark
and grisly environment wherein he heard people groaning in agony. Then he saw the devil frighteningly smiling
at him motioning him to go towards him. He suddenly run away as fast as he could and soon after he woke-up from his horrible dream. The man incidentally was living a very sinful life.
The
horrifying dream led the man to church he prayed and ask Jesus’ forgiveness
then he saw the confessional booth. He went there and confessed his sins to the
priest and the priest advised him to repent and to sincerely follow Jesus by
faithfully practicing his faith.
The story
of this man is our own story of sinfulness too, we are sinful and we keep on
sinning. Would we allow the devil to continue to enslave us by incessantly
sinning? Would we allow the devil to bring us to hell by ignoring Jesus’ call
of repentance? What if we die right now do we want to end up in hell and be in
the possession of the devil?
No one of
us is wishing for hell, deep inside our beings we yearn for God, we yearn for
peace and serenity in our life. And this is what God wants for us also; He
wants to give us peace and calmness that He only can give us. But what must we
do? We must repent, believe in the
gospel and follow Jesus.
In the
gospel for this Monday, the four fishermen (Simon, Andrew, James and John) heard this call of repentance of
Jesus for they too were sinful just like all of us. Then after repenting they
followed Jesus to become His disciples.
When are
you going to repent from your sinfulness? When are you going to faithfully
follow Jesus? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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