Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 11, 28-30
Jesus said: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
Afflicted and burdened. A few days ago, some friends asked me to share with them how my life was going and what was happening to me. I love what I do, and it is great to see how people are responding. I have wonderful parents who, in spite of their physical limitations, do their best, and I am surprised to see that a wheelchair or a walker does not stop them. But in my head there’s this Luis who fights with the other Luis, the Luis of the future or the threatening Luis who says, “enjoy everything now, because it’ll come to an end sooner or later”. Because something I’ve learned in these years is that you have to be prepared for things to end and not fall into depression or nostalgia or denial. That will come to all of us, and it will come to me too. When I talk about it with my spiritual guide, I realize that maybe there’s an excessive fear in me to be prepared when that day arrives, and because of that I may not be thoroughly enjoying a lot of beautiful things that are happening now. I’ve learned to see that nothing is forever, except God. That’s why I invite you to enjoy today because everything is momentary. So, let’s give it our all today, because tomorrow we might not be able to do so.
Give you rest. Jesus invites us to go to him so He can make our burden lighter or more tolerable. Jesus wants to offer you the opportunity to meet with Him so that you can leave in his hands everything that weighs you down and troubles you. Do what you can and entrust to God what you can’t do.
Yoke. We all go through situations that weigh us down or and must face things that we can’t control, and this causes an even greater weight: sadness. Sadness doesn’t allow you to look up and ahead, it puts more weight on you and holds you down. So, put yourself in God’s hands and you’ll find comfort and relief in the God of life.
Never forget that something good is on the way!
God bless you and be with you, in the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
Father Luis, as we affectionately know him, is a Catholic Diocesan Priest, from Tucuman, Argentina. He was ordained Priest at the Cathedral of Tucuman on March 23, 2012. Father Luis graduated in Theology from the Catholic University of Argentina, Magister in Liturgy of the Argentine Society of Liturgy and is currently undergraduate in family guidance at the Austral University. Father Luis is Co-Founder and Director of Catholic Digital Missioners.
