Meditation for Friday
of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year B
(Gen 3:1-8; Mk
7:31-37)
As the beautiful story of creation
is unfolding, suddenly and disappointedly, we hear the sad story of the fall of
man. It was unprecedented. A sense of chaos began to re-emerge as Adam and
Eve were now more preoccupied with self-survival than walking hand in hand with
the Lord God. They discovered at the late hour that the serpent tricked them;
the sugar-coated and pleasurable promises he made to them did not exist. Worse still,
having pulled them down from relying on God’s will and command, the serpent had
no solution for their misery. Imagine where self-preservation became the
highest preoccupation of human beings, each person would become a burden unto
himself, and would distrust God and his neighbour! “And they heard the sound of
the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his
wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the
garden.”
The man regained his freedom, and bore witness to the goodness of God. As the people zealously praised God, we see the new order of the redeemed man in Christ Jesus, that self-preservation is no more his preoccupation, but to worship God. Thanks be to God for we can now trust God and our neighbour, and live freely.
May Almighty God bless you, The
Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Fr Jude Chinwenwa Nwachukwu, C.Ss.R
Saints Peter & Paul Catholic
Church,
Tedi-Muwo, Lagos.
Friday February 12th,
2021.
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