Your words, O God, today are a mystery, revealing the inverse proportionality of your glory! As I think of the new day, I cannot help but smile that for us to be wise in this age as St. Paul reminds us in the first reading, we have to be fools, “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God.”(1Cor.3:18-19)
Like Simon Peter in the gospel, we have to be “shallow” by setting aside our expertise, our intelligence or brilliance as fishermen to obey instructions of Jesus the carpenter to “cast their nets into the deep”(Lk.5:4) to catch more fish.
Whenever I look back in my life, I notice how often I felt empty when I tried to be more in control; but, when I surrendered myself to you in faith, that is when I felt fulfilled! Give us the grace, O Lord, to heed the Apostle’s words, “Let no one deceive himself”(1Cor.3:18) because your ways and your glory are inversely proportional to ours. When the world tells us to go up and rise, you tell us to go down to meet you. When the world tells us to have more, you tell us to give and share to be filled by you. And when the world tells us to be famous and popular, you tell us to be simple and hidden to discover true glory and majesty in you. Amen.Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II, Parokya ng San Juan Apostol at Ebanghelista, Gov. F. Halili Ave., Bagbaguin, Sta. Maria, Bulacan 3022. Photo by the author taken last 23 February 2018 during our Stations of the Cross in a barrio. See the warning against stealing or “dukot” with Christ below.
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