In the Walk towards the knowledge and acceptance of Christ: Year A

8TH SUNDAY – A: (Is 49:14-15; Ps 61/62, 2-3, 6-9; 1Cor 4:1-5; Matt 6:24-34)
Theme: Continuous hope in the providence of God
Reflection:
1st Reading:
- Hope in God that He would not forget us
- Like a mother who cannot forget her children and even more God about his chosen ones and adopted children.
- Hope between human agony and God’s promise
Psalm:
- Song of faith in God from whom comes the salvation and who is the rock and defense.
- Song of praise of the soul for the reposing place
- The true post and real tent where man can relax and repose well is ONLY GOD
Gospel:
- Every word is precious
- Every sentence reminds us to throw ourselves on the total dependence of God.
- Jesus reveals the truth of the man who is in CONFLICT between two desires: desires of the soul and desires of the body; desires of the spirit and desires of the world; desires of the faith and desires of the flesh;
- Jesus asks us to take a moment to think what are we, where are we from and we are we heading to and what is our final destiny? Why to have too much of preoccupation and too much of unnecessary worries and thoughts.
- Food, water and garments are very much important and necessary for the human life but THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY LIFE. Man cannot go after them risking his life and at the cost of his own fall into the destruction of one’s faith and spirit.
- In this world: modern man is forgetting his own origin and forgetting the basement of his life and on the other hand want to become himself a God. And today Jesus reminds us to ACCEPT and ADORE with the silence and wonder the GRANDNESS of God and his immense love for the creation.
- Finally as human we have to work and labor for the daily food. Jesus do not tell us to escape the proper task but tells us not to be worried and preoccupied too much about this.

We have to work for what will remain till the end. The world and desires of this world do not last long. The only reality that exists for ever is the Kingdom of God and Jesus tells us to work for that and search for its realization amidst us with our life and testimony and what we need (not the things but the way), will be automatically shown to us.