Sunday Reflection The first reading present to us a part of the narrative of the call and mission of the prophet Jonah who was called to go Nineveh and proclaim that Gods punishment on the people of Nineveh was imminent. However, at the second mandate to go to Nineveh, the prophet obeyed, preached and, suprisingly, the city welcomed the message and repented of their sins and got converted. The Lord pardoned them and relented from the punishment he had planned to mete on them. In todays gospel, Jesus begins his preaching with the call to conversion: the time has come and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent and believe the Good news! It also means that the time has arrived for God to act as the King of the universe, to establish justice and bring about the salvation of man. In the second reading Paul follows the line of thought as we have seen above as he writes: our time is growing short, the world is passing away. Paul does not mean that we should despice the things of this world. The meaning of the passage from Paul is that we are neither to give in fatalism nor indifference. Paul rather wishes us to consider the things of the world as relative, as means to an end and not end itself. FIRST READING; Jonah 3:1-5. 10. SECOND READING; 1 Cor. 7:29-31. GOSPEL: Mark 1:14-20.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:31:46 +0000
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