The Catholic Calendar for Sunday, September 28, 2003
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Numbers 11:25-29
Psalm 19:8,10,12-14
James 5:1-6
Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48

A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:

"And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to
enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be
thrown into Gehenna."

Most of us are very foolish indeed! We believe in illusion most of the
time, not reality. Most of our desires, our aspirations come from a
false sense of self. We think that if we have x or achieve y, then we
will be happy. Tomorrow being better than today is an illusion we
chase day in day out, not recognising that the source of all joy, all
happiness is already with us now -- Emmanuel: God with us.

When we chase the illusion of ourselves rather than being grounded in
the truth of our intimate relationship with Jesus, we risk our very
souls. When we feed the illusion, it's a poor investment. All we are
left with is illusion, no real life. When we feed the truth, its
effects bring a life full of meaning, joy and fulfillment. So if our
desires of the senses are leading us to build our lives more on
illusion than truth, then we know it's time to step back, to
disassociate from our desires so that we can reconnect again with the
source of all life, Jesus.

O Holy Spirit,
give us eyes that see
and ears that hear the truth
to which all of us are called to bear witness.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen

- Cliodhna Doyle (clia at cliadoyle dot com)

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