Gospel: Matthew
11:28-30
Jesus
said: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of
heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my
burden light.”
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Reflection:
A young
man who was trying very hard to find his place in this world was at the point
of surrender. He murmured to himself, “I am a total failure, in the abyss of
his frustration he thought of ending his life.
Until he
was advised by a friends to seek God and surrender every burdens that he have
in his heart. So he went to Mass regularly and he read his bible, after a few
weeks he developed a personal intimacy with Jesus and he surrendered his
everything to Him.
Many of
us have this tendency to allow ourselves to be eaten up by the frenetic pace and materialism of this
world. We get too busy in fact very busy because we want to satisfy our many
temporal wants. But come to think of it, why are we punishing ourselves too
much just to satisfy our worldly desires? Why are many of us favoring this
world when what we earn from this world can actually be taken from us anytime?
In our
gospel for today, Jesus invites us all to go to Him. We who are so busy with
this world, we who tend to forget the primacy of God more than this world. When
are we going to open our hearts to this invitation of Jesus? When we are
already sick? Let us not wait for that unfortunate time to come.
Let us
build a relationship with Jesus now and let us respond to His invitation now. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
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