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April 11, 2022
Today’s reading is a story that tells us how Judas and Mary experienced same encounter with Jesus and had different perception of the event. This reading reminds us that our actions and behavior have different effects with our relationships. We are a creature of habits, and our thinking also follows a pattern. That pattern was influence by our upbringing, environment, culture, and information we learned as we get older. Its greatest influence is how much we appreciate ourselves in terms of the blessings we had. The more we appreciate ourselves the less judgmental we become. As sinners, we are all, at times we think that others also think the way we are thinking. Where is his/her common sense? As Judas said that the oil can be sold and given to the poor. Remember every action has an intention. Our intention is most important in the eyes of our Lord. He knows what we are trying to prove. We must be cognizant of our intentions that it is not self-serving or self-gratifying to show off. Virtue of humility, we have to practice. We practice humility to improve our relationships. We must work on being a better person of ourselves one day at a time. Better than yesterday.
Another point of view on this reading is about our priorities in our lives. What is most important at this time of our lives. During our journey, our priorities changes with our needs and responsibilities. As we build our families, the focus is to provide the family. We spend more time working and building careers to be able to provide and support our needs During the latter part of our lives, it changes. Remember that all we have now came from God’s grace. We will not be where we are if not because of Him. During this Holy week, we must pause to look into ourselves, where we are in our spiritual growth, our intentions and priorities at this point of our journey.
