Feast of Saint Lawrence, deacon and martyr
Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Jn 12: 24-26
August 10, 2023 | Thursday
Truly, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Those who love their life destroy it, and those who despise their life in this world save it even to everlasting life.
Whoever wants to serve me, let him follow me; and wherever I am, there shall my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Today’s Reflection:
Death is viewed by most of us who are comfortable with living as the “disruption” of a good life and the loss of one’s chance to goodness. But, truly, death is not a rotten part of living that we should avoid. Death is but a part of a healthy living for eternity. Death is the mark of life that calls us to ultimately choose the direction of life to Divine transformation. We do not live forever in the temporality of time and space. We should die so that we may born into a Life with God. Remembering Saint Lawrence who did not see the present life as much more important than the life to come, he welcomed death with docility and even with humor. For him, it is just the transition to the next. It lets us discern that as many had died in the history of time, have we truly died as Christians? /Vulnerasti, 2023
