Thursday, September 19 24th Week of OT. St Januarius R1: 1 Tim 4:12-16 Go: Lk 7:36-50 Reflection by:Bro. Gaspar Blikon, SS.CC FORGIVEN Our gospel today invites me to reflect on my first experience when I did my pastoral year. On July, 10 2013 I arrived at the Minor Seminary. My feeling before I did my pastoral years was joyful. I was happy with the place given to me for my pastoral years. As a stranger I just observe what people were doing and sometimes I asked them what I should do. After some weeks, we as a staff member began to decide what kind of subjects that we must teach. I got three subjects. They are Religion, Catechism and English. After I knew that, I began to collect the books and began to make a syllabus. After making a syllabus I went to the students and explained it. After I explained it, I usually asked for some suggestions. The students did not give any suggestions so I thought they all agreed with the syllabus that I had prepared. Some weeks later I began to teach them. I heard some of the students complained. They said that they already studied these subjects. So I asked them what kind of subjects that I can teach them. I continued with the statement “I feel that you have rejected me. Why? Because last week I asked you and gave you the opportunity to explain or to give suggestions about the syllabus that I had prepared”. The students kept silent. I continued to ask what they wanted from me. The class was quiet. After that some of them said, “Brother we will continue with what you have prepared”. After they said that I continued by saying “you know how I deal when I am my own self, how to be friends with you, but sometimes I become a staff member. It is quite difficult for me. If I become only your friend it easy for me, but you know how sometimes to be a friend and staff is not easy. Brothers and sisters from this experience I learned how to forgive them. I come to my inner self and ask myself I want to be friends with them, but I also learned to be a staff member. Today’s reading invites us to forgive others in our life. We must recognize that other people represent something. As a Christian we believe that our Lord is present through others. Lord, help me to be calm when I am challenged and let me understand what is going on within myself so that I will be able to understand myself and forgive others.
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