Today’s Reflection
Gospel: Mt 11: 28-30
December  13, 2023 |  Wednesday

Today’s Gospel

Jesus is described in the gospels as the son of a carpenter. During His adulthood, He most probably inherited His legal father’s (Saint Joseph) trade and practiced it to provide for His mother, the Virgin Mary. In His practice of the trade, He must have produced yokes for beasts of burden in His local neighborhood or for farmers elsewhere. Each yoke is individually made because it must fit each beast perfectly. It becomes heavy and uneasy for the beast if the yoke doesn’t fit its neck. But the burden becomes light and easy if the yoke fits perfectly. The same also applies to our problems and crosses in life. Each vocation and each state of life has its own cross. To each his own, as they say. So let us not look at other people’s crosses and burdens. Instead,
let us patiently bear our burdens in life. They are ours to carry. Let us trust the Lord’s words that He will give us rest when the burden becomes too heavy and unbearable.

Today’s Reflection:.

Today is the feast of Saint Lucy, the patroness of those with eye ailments. The early Augustinians in the Philippines were known devotees of the virgin martyr from Syracuse in Sicily. They built many beautiful churches under her patronage like those in Sasmuan (Pampanga), Aringay (La Union), and Santa Lucia (Ilocos Sur). May Saint Lucy, whose name means light, scatter the darkness around us through her prayers.   / Vulnerasti, 2023