SERVING IS BLESSING

Thursday within the Fourth week of Easter Year C John 13:16-20 Christ invites us to serve. Friends, we are not here for ourselves but for others. Like Jesus our mission is to serve not to be served. Our calling is to make our world great by serving one another. Jesus is the master but He shows the great example by washing the feet of his disciples. We are called to do the same! Election is over and we have choosen our public servants. Take note we called our government officials “public servants” not leaders because their positions are office to render service. They are public servant servants because like Jesus they desire to serve and not to collect revenues for self promotion. To serve means to actualized the meaning of love. Service is putting love in action. We pray that our newly elected public servants will truly become men and women of service. Today’s gospel reminds us that position and power are opportunities to “bend-down” to wash what is dirty. We cannot serve if we don’t have the humility to bend. Friends, let us avoid eleveating ourselves to the pedestal of self promotion. Instead, let us exalt the virtue of humility by following the splendid example shown by Jesus himself. “If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.” Let me end my reflection by saying: there is blessing in serving. Blessings Fr. Jhack