February 24, 2022
Thursday of Week Seven for Ordinary Time
Readings for Today
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“Dem go use fire salt everybody. Salt good, but if salt lose im taste, wetin una go use bring im taste back? Make una keep salt inside unaself, and una go get peace with one another.” Mark 9:49-50
You ready make dem “use fire salt you?” Jesus make am clear say everybody go pass through this “salting.” So wetin this one really mean?
When you put salt for food, e dey bring out di taste. No be really say e dey turn di food to another thing; instead, e dey improve wetin dey there already and make di taste better.
Salt dey also help make things pure. Dem dey use am preserve food, and e dey help remove bacteria from food. E good make we look well at these two ways salt dey work: to bring out taste and to preserve food.
For dem to “use fire salt” us mean say na God dey make us pure. Fire dey purify and refine things. Dem dey use heat remove germs from utensils, dem dey use fire make gold pure, and dem still dey use am shape precious metals into images or jewellery.
Na so e still be with us. God fire must make us pure for every way. E must remove sin from us, and e must make us soft enough for God to shape us into His divine image.
But how this one dey happen? One way na when God remove from us all di desires and cravings of di body wey dey selfish and wey dey against wetin God want. This one fit pain us, and na why dem compare am to fire. Another way na when God make us pure deep inside our spirit. This one fit happen when dem give us heavy cross to carry, and we carry am with patience and acceptance. When our will face challenge and test, we get chance to hand over our own will to God and choose His will. But many times, His will include make we fully accept any suffering wey we dey endure. For that kind case, suffering fit make us pure for di deepest part of our will, and so suffering go work for our redemption.
Today, think deeply about how God dey work to make your life pure. Think especially about any suffering wey dey pain you and wey you no want accept. Know say if you fully accept this suffering, e fit truly bring di purification wey God want for your life, so that you go truly become holy and pure.
My Lord wey dey make me pure, I pray make You remove all sin from my soul. First, help me become free from all attachment to things of di body wey dey disturb my love for You. Help me too to become free from my own will. Make di sufferings and cross for my life become true grace wey You go use free me and help me grow strong for patience and every virtue. I give myself to You, my dear Lord. Jesus, na You I trust.
More Reflections on the Gospel
Reflection Dem about God im Mercy
Meditations on Scripture for Ordinary Time
Two very good books for Lent:
Reflections for Lent and Easter
We don update am for Lent & Easter 2022, with more reflections and Table of Contents wey give more details
Reflections for Lent and Easter na one of the four books wey make up the Catholic Daily Reflections Series. As book for devotion, e dey help person well-well to tink deep and pray every day. E get reflections on the Gospel of each day wey remain faithful to the faith, easy to understand, and useful for everyday life. The way dem arrange am, person fit use am for any liturgical year. E get reflections for every Gospel option, including Sunday Years A, B & C, every option for daily Mass, and all Feasts and Solemnities. Allow the death and resurrection of Christ to change your heart more fully this Lent and Easter! You fit also get am as paperback & eBook!
40 Days for the Foot of the Cross:
To Look with Love from the Heart of Our Blessed Mother
Through this book for daily devotion, dem dey invite you to use prayer think deep about wetin dey the mind and heart of our Blessed Mother as she endure the great suffering wey dem make her own dear Son suffer. Mother Mary face her Son Cross with perfect faith, love and devotion. She remain faithful to her Son throughout Im life without shaking. As she stand before the Cross during those three long hours, she no stop to dey faithful.
