Thursday of the 7th week in Ordinary time: Mk 9:41-50 (Reflection)

Praised be Jesus Christ!!!

 Sa mundong ating ginagalawan, marami tayong mga tao at mga bagay, maging ang ating sarili ay ating nakakasalamuha, nakakasama sa mga bagay-bagay. At dahil sa mga pangyayaring iyon, minsan ito ay nagdudulot sa atin na gumawa ng mga bagay mabuti man o masama. Sabihin na natin sa mga taong ating nakakasalamuha, magbigay tayo ng isang halimbawa, gamitin na din siguro natin ang bagay na patok na patok sa mga kabataan, ang barkada. Sabihin na natin na may kabarkada ang isang bata. At siyempre bilang parte ng isang barkada, ang nangyayari, kung anung gagawin ng isa yun na din ang gagawin o gugustuhin ng lahat. Sabihin natin nagyaya ang isa sa kanila na mag-simba, mabuting gawain iyon. Pero kung ang isa ay magyaya na pumunta sa mga lugar na parang wala ng Diyos dahil sa sobrang pangit at masama nito. Iyan ang masasabi nating isang masamang impluwensya na nagdudulot ng kasalanan. Sabihin na din natin, isa pang halimbawa, ang internet at mga computers, yan ay dapat ginagamit para sa kabutihan, for research purposes and as a Christian to bring Christ to the world by the usage of the internet. But one of the most obvious problems in the internet is the many abuses many people do in using the internet. Imbis na ginagamit ang social media para palaganapin ang pag-ibig ng Diyos and to bring good to others, ito ay nagagamit to send scandals, to send evil messages that will make other people more down, more deprived and more desperate in finding hope. Maging ang ating sarili na rin siguro, indeed we are given the freedom by God to choose what ever path of life we like. But the harsh thing is often we choose to forget God, we choose to remove God by our non-stop committing of sins. What is the use of things, if the things we use, we create are used to spread evil and not good? Anu nga ba namang saysay ng mga bagay na ito kung puro pambababa ng iba ang idinudulot nito? Why create things and use things that are senseless,

non-sense?  What is the use? Why do things, why use yourself, why tire yourself in doing things that are not human but barbaric? I could not understand. Bakit nga ba? And people now a days will say; "I'm so tired, I need to rest." If the things one is doing is senseless, why do that? Ngayon magre-rekla-reklamo ka. Ehhh.. ginusto mo yan ehhh... You choose to do senseless things and now you complain. What the gospel today is trying to say is simply this; Do not let anything become  a hindrance in your relationship with God. Better remove those hindrance, better burn and erase those hindrance that keep us away from God. Example of those hindrance are the following:  lust, indifference, secularism, pro-death things and thoughts, barbaric and non-human actions. For short sin. If one is leading you to commit sin (person, things and even one's self) better remove that, better make your way in order to change that. Sin is the greatest hindrance that divides, that separate, that remove us from the love of God. Sin should be remove in our thinking. On the first place, sin is not natural for human beings, especially those who say they believe in God, they are Catholic, they are CHRISTians. For those kinds of people sin is not usual, sin is a virus. Better remove the things, better change the things, (through God's grace) that keep us away from God. As the motto of Jesuits "Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam" For the greater glory of God, that should be the main goal of every person, every human being, everything in the world, For the greater glory of God, that should be the main purpose of our lives. Things, others and one's self should be use to add to the glory of God. Better leave the things that keep us away from God. To end I would like to quote St. Dominic Savio "Death but not sin." I rather die, I rather perish than to be out of the sight of God, for a person full of sin and no sign of repentance is in him or her is already lost in God's sight. Use things and one's life for the glory of God. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam!!!

Jesus I trust thee!!!

Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!!!