4th Wednesday in the Ordinary Time Memorial of Saint Paul Miki and Companions, martyrs IN TODAY'S GOSPEL (Mark 6:1-20) the Lord encountered rejection from his own townmates-- "A prophet is despised only in his own country, among his relatives and in his own family" (v. 4)--simply because he has been one among them-- "Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joset and Judas and Simon... His sisters, too, are they not here among us?" So they took offense at him (v. 3). And in an important moment in his ministerial life, he experienced the difference between the love of his Father and the love of men. By nature, human "love" is selfish. People tend to behave with care on people that they like; not on those they don't. We believe that love is a privilege that you can give to or take from other people depending on how we like them or not. We tend to praise others' accomplishments in close relationship to th...
My deepest vocation is to be a witness of the glimpses of God I have been allowed to catch. HENRI JOHN M NOUWEN [Thanks to my friend Albert Aballe for providing this quote]