Posted by The WORD in other words (2009) by Fr Jigss Orcino SVD – Palawan
Wednesday 10th Week in Ordinary Time
Once I visited a barrio. A young mother carrying her baby girl approached me, asking for a blessing.
She told her baby who was just learning to speak, to take my hand. Her baby said, “Mano po, Pade.”
Their continuous effort at learning the phrase paid off at last. She was able to say it well!
Like the way the patient young mother taught her child, God teaches us morality and character, step by step, pautay-utay.
Laws everywhere can be overwhelming—God’s laws, church laws, social laws and many more. Laws guide us to form good habits. Good habits are harder to form than bad ones. But we have to keep trying even when we keep failing.
Discouragement must never rule over us. This is how salvation works — we try and fail, and Jesus steps in and perfects the result of our effort.
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