Reflection on Today’s Gospel – Lk 10:38-42
"Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her”. Contemplation is man's falling in love with God. The Lord Jesus, who said that Mary chose the best part, knew well what he was talking about. After all, he went through his human life in love with his Father. " My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work (Jn 4:34). “The world must know that I love the Father and that I do just as the Father has commanded me" (Jn 14:31). Jesus' love for his Eternal Father was also expressed in the fact that he often spent whole nights in prayer.
It is remarkable and completely undeserved that a God who loves us wants to be loved by us. He wants us to give ourselves in love to Him. "Man - to recall the well-known formula of the last Council - is the only creature on this earth that God wanted for himself; therefore, he cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself." (Gaudium et Spes)
The same, in an equally profound way, was said by John Paul II in his first encyclical:
" Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it. This, as has already been said, is why Christ the Redeemer "fully reveals man to himself". (Redemptor Hominis, 10)
Mary chose the best part because she sat down at the feet of Him who is Love itself and absorbed His Divine Presence and Wisdom. Well, it is worth realizing that all the baptized are called to imitate Mary. If we remain in sanctifying grace, the word of God illuminates our paths in life. And if we strive to devote ourselves to God and entrust to Him every day, then "God's love is poured into our hearts" - and even if we live a very active life, we carry in our hearts a seed of the gift of contemplation, the gift of falling in love with God.
Until Tomorrow
fr. george