05/06/2026
DAILY REFLECTION: I REJOICE IN HEARING YOUR VOICE.
Mark 12:35–37 “The large crowd listened to Him with delight.”
We can imagine this scene: a man surrounded by thousands of people who joyfully sit down to listen to Him. How do you picture it? I think of it as a fountain of love, like when you feel such a great emotion that you cannot find the words to describe it.
Have you ever sat down simply to listen to the voice of Jesus?
Before the coming of Christ, people had the Old Testament, which is the ultimate guide to what God desires for us. He wants us to live according to His Ten Commandments. Do you know them? They speak of love, respect, honesty, goodwill, and forgiveness. You can find them in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I highly recommend—it is a wonderful read. It serves as a guide to a lifelong commitment whose purpose is to do good for others.
When God realized that we could not fully understand His words, He did something extraordinary. He chose to become Man so that we could relate to Him. That was when He sent Jesus Christ, His only Son, born of Mary and Joseph through the power of the Holy Spirit, who is also God. We call this the Holy Trinity. It is one God in three distinct Persons so that our human understanding might find answers.
The coming of Jesus was, is, and always will be—because He is eternal—the greatest way God found to help us understand Him. Jesus, as Man, feels, loves, suffers, cries, eats, lives, and sleeps, just as you and I do. He is our Brother, our Friend, and our Father. We encounter Him and can see Him in the person standing before us. We are Jesus! We were created in His image and likeness, and we possess the capacity for the same qualities, gifts, and talents that He has. Yet many people struggle to understand this. How can I be like Jesus, the Son of God? Because we too are children of the same Father. Jesus speaks to us about love. He tells us that when we forgive those who offend us, we receive His love; that when we help those in need, we are helping Him; and that on the Cross, He showed mercy to all of us when He said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
We, who are that crowd spoken of by Mark in this Gospel, listened to Him gladly. But what did we do? We crucified Him! All because we failed to understand when He spoke to us about the love that is lived through forgiveness. And what did He do? He forgave us! Jesus constantly fills us with His love so that we may imitate Him, forgive others, speak of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and bear witness that we recognize Him as the Messiah who came to bring us peace.
Let us draw closer to God through Jesus, who invites us to love others in the same way that He loves us.
Today's Resolution: Today I want to speak about Jesus. I want to share the joy of His message of love, and I want others to understand that God became Man so that we might learn how to forgive, how to love, and how to live together in peace.
