Kathleen Townsend - Thomastown Parish

Late of Jerpoint West & Dublin. Internment of Ashes in St. Mary’s New Cemetery after 10am Mass in the Church of the Assumption on Monday 09th April 2012. May she rest in peace.

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Reflection

Dear brothers and sisters, a faith without giving, a faith without gratuitousness is an incomplete faith. It is a weak faith, a faith that is ill. We could compare it to rich and nourishing food that nonetheless lacks flavour, or a more or less well-played game, but without a goal: no, it isn’t good, it lacks “salt.” A faith without giving, without gratuitousness, without works of charity, makes us sad in the end: just like that man who returned home “sorrowful” with a fallen countenance, even though he had been looked upon with love by Jesus in person.
Today we can ask ourselves: “at what point is my faith? Do I experience it as something mechanical, like a relationship of duty or interest with God? Do I remember to nourish it by letting myself be looked at and loved by Jesus”? Letting oneself be gazed at and loved by Jesus; letting Jesus look at us, love us. “And, attracted by him, do I respond freely, with generosity, with all my heart?”
Angelus for the 28th Sun Ord B
Pope Francis