The Word every day: 9-15 February, 2025
Commentary on the Readings of the Day by Father Giordano Favillini
Sunday 9/02
Luke 5:5
Master, we have toiled all night and have caught nothing, but at Your word I will cast the nets. When relying only on our own strength we can achieve nothing, we must lift up our eyes and open ourselves to those who can really help us.
Monday 10/02
Mark 6: 54-55
The people immediately recognised him and rushing from all over the region began to carry the sick on stretchers. In the most desperate situations never let faith fail. Simple faith stirs the merciful heart of God.
Tuesday 11/02
Mark 7:6
This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. The Lord is honoured when one speaks, acts, prays with love. A worship, a life without love, is worthless before God.
Wednesday 12/02
Mark 7:21
From within, that is, from the hearts of men, come evil intentions. We must inspect our hearts often and with the light of the Holy Spirit and His help free them from all suggestions of evil and sin.
Thursday 13/02
Mark 7:24
When Jesus entered a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he could not remain hidden. Jesus, the risen shepherd, is so necessary and indispensable to our humanity that he always lets himself be found by those who seek him.
Friday 14/02
Mark 7: 32 and 34
They brought him a deaf and dumb man, looked up to heaven, gave a sigh and said to him: ‘Effatà!’, that is, open. Just as Jesus opened the tomb of death, so today he has the power to open all that is sealed by fear, hatred, selfishness, disease, restoring to us the freedom to love and joy.
Saturday 15/02
Mark 8:6
He ordered the crowd to sit on the ground, took the seven loaves, gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to distribute, and they distributed them to the crowd. The risen Jesus became broken bread to feed, and those who do not eat him but other foods will always be hungry, indeed the foods that worldliness offers are often poison.