22nd Week in Ordinary Time : Friday 5th September 2025

The hymnal tone of praising God by Paul in his introductory exhortation to the Colossian, is an epitome of Jesus Christ as the focal point of reference for Christians to find daily meaning and perduring purpose in all creation. Hence, it is an invitation and a summons for us to contemplate the wonder and splendour of creation before our eyes. Finding it through Jesus Christ is to find newness of relating and ever refreshing thought on the day-to-day encounter with everything that nudges our senses. For what does it mean for us that Christ Jesus holds all things in unity and that the Church is His body than to delight in such conviction?

God our Father has reconciled all things through Jesus Christ and made peace by His death on the cross. Too often, our awareness is centred on what it means to be disunited and broken, whether it is within us as individuals or without as a people who experience disharmony and violence. This necessitates our regular attention to praise our Lord who has forged the peace through His crucifixion and resurrection. True unity and peace are tangible when life is seen as encompassing death in and through Christ. Jesus has called us to a new way of living and seeing. This new way of seeing is illustrated by Jesus in the parable of new and old cloaks, new and old wine. Admitting such incompatibility, am I willing to amend and adapt my way to Jesus’ way?

PRAYER Lord, accomplish in me Your ways of seeing and living.