The year 2020 is already one month old and I sincerely hope and pray that it has started well for one and all. With the New Year resolutions at the back of our minds, we need to commit ourselves to a change in our style of day to day living, most importantly a commitment towards responsibility, duty, obligation, etc. In fact it’s our willingness to give our time and energy to do something good for God and people around you. Unless commitment is made, there will be only promises and hopes, but no plans. Commitment leads to action and is generally used in relation to goals we set for ourselves.
Christmas season is just over and as per the Liturgical Calendar; we are in the Ordinary Time, reflecting on the public life of Jesus, when He was on this Earth. Jesus constantly demanded of His disciples and the followers, commitment to Him and to His Father, our God. His disciples left their fishing nets and followed Him in order to commit themselves fully to Jesus and His mission. Likewise we need to be people, who are full of Jesus’ cause and not lukewarm believers. This applies to the dedication we pray with, the passion with which we approach our jobs and day to day activities and the responsibility with which we fulfill our duties and obligations both at home and in the workplace, our communities and the Society. With Jesus, there are no half measures, only total commitment. We cannot remain half here and half there, but embrace God’s work and plan in toto. The final result will be astonishing, to say the least.
Let us prepare ourselves for the upcoming Feast of our Patron, St. Sebastian on 23rd day of February 2020. Let this be a meaningful and spiritual preparation. The Lenten Season also arrives, beginning with Ash Wednesday, 26th February 2020. In the words of our Pope Francis, “Lent comes providentially to re-awaken us, to shake us from our lethargy”. Let this be the time for reflection and transformation, time to look within and change into what we ought to be.
Until we meet again.
Felix Dias
Editor