15 January 2023
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
“Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will” is the response to the Psalm in today’s mass. It sums up Christ’s reply to his Father’s will, and I should make it my prayer now, and during the rest of my life.
“Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not”. The Father, who created me, does not expect me to praise him, worship him by means of the extraordinary. It is by accepting and doing the ordinary that I follow the law that leads me to sanctity. “My God, I love your law”, to love you and my neighbor as I love myself.
I know that it is only the Lord himself who can lead me to true happiness, and he invites me to do so by how I perform the work I am called to do, and, by actions and words, showing those I come in contact each day where true happiness can be found.
Resolve: Today, I shall ask Christ to give me the grace to be more like him in what I say and do during the course of the year, and that in my daily mingling with others, I give quiet witness to where that true happiness we all seek can be found.