February 2, 2014
Fourth Sunday of the Ordinary Time A
Daily Mass Reading - Audio
TWO TURTLE DOVES
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
Therese of Lisieux offered herself as a ball in the hands of child Jesus so that she can be with Jesus always. She was sick for the good part of her lifetime. When other nuns in the convent asked her why she was not praying to Jesus for a healing, she smiled at them and said, “When I go to Eucharistic Jesus tomorrow, I must have something to offer that others do not have.”
The Feast of Presentation of the Lord reminds us that each one of us must offer ourselves at the hands of God to have a closer relationship with God and our brethren.
Offering ourselves is a necessity: Jesus was son of God. His parents too were aware of it as they were instructed by the angel on different occasions during his birth. Still they preferred to offer child Jesus just as to fulfil the Scripture (Lk 2:22). The Creator is being offered by the ‘created.’ It was to convey a message to us that when we offer ourselves to God alone our life finds fulfilment. The final words of Jesus on the cross too were a cry of offering himself to the hands of God (Lk 23:466). Offering ourselves to God daily is allowing ourselves to be used by God just as the clay in the hands of a potter (Jer 18:1-12). Then alone God can make use of us as he wishes to. Then alone God’s plan will be realised in our families.
Offering, even if it is small is valuable: Very often we consider ourselves unworthy of offering at the feet of
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