Saturday Memorial Of The Blessed Virgin Mary

ECCL 11:9—12:8
LK 9:43B-45

In today’s Gospel, as Jesus goes up to Jerusalem together with his disciples, he revealed to them again his passion and yet they did not understand the messianic knowledge, they were still yet to grasp fully the truth about his mission.

Every believer understands that to know God is the highest and best form of knowledge; and this spiritual knowledge is a source of strength to the Christian. It strengthens his faith. Believers are constantly spoken of in the Scriptures as being persons who are enlightened and taught by the Lord; they are said to “have an unction to function from the Holy One,” and it is the Spirit’s peculiar office to lead them into all truth, and all this for the increase and the fostering of their faith.

To be a witness for Christ is to be ready to go whenever and wherever He calls us to serve. This cannot always be fun as the book of Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) says “my child, if you aspire to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for an ordeal” (cf. Eccl.2:1). It would therefore be foolhardy of us to think that we can do this following a man who suffered and died before attaining the crown of glory, without we ourselves experiencing suffering and persecution

Surely, we will be put to test. Our faith will be tried and if it be of the true kind, it will bear continued trial without yielding immediately. We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously he once waited for us. “The people that do know their God shall be strong.”Daniel 11:32 The Lord will guard us, as a shepherd guard his flock.

“Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.”Psalm 25:5

FR Joseph Osho