Lenten reflection 13 : Humility

14 March 2017

Humility

Today's Lenten message is on humility. Jesus taught us the importance of servitude by his example of washing the feet of his disciples during the Last Supper; by his healing of the sick, the deaf, the blind, the possessed, the leper, when no one would go near them. 

In the Gospel, (Mt 23:1-12) Jesus stressed that "the greatest among you must be your servant." and "whoever humbles himself will be exalted."  

The humble will be exalted. Isn't that nice? When God lifts us up, he gives us the strength to do, what sometimes seem impossible tasks. We see it in the relief workers each time a natural disaster occur, how they worked tirelessly to help dig out victims caught in an earthquake, or a typhoon or a landslide. We are called to be of service to others, even to people whom we do not know, like the good Samaritan who helped the injured man lying along the road...just because it is the right thing to do. We cannot turn our eyes and ears from the cries of the oppressed, the victims of human trafficking, the starving, the sick. This Lent, let us think of them often and pray for them; pray for a kinder. more compassionate world because Mother Teresa once said...only love can turn and change the hardest of hearts. 

                                The future is in your hearts and in your hands. 
                                God is entrusting to you the task, 
                                at once difficult and uplifting,  
                                of working with Him in the building
                                of the civilization of love. 

                                                   - Pope St John Paul II -