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Meditation Daily
Jesus raises the widow’s son at Nain (Lk 7:11-17)
“Young men, I say to you, rise!”
Respected Fr. Rector, Rev. Fathers and my dear brothers,
Today we meditate on Jesus miraculous intervention in the life of widow’s only son. For this poor widow, her only support and hope was her son. She worked day and night to make him great. But all of a sudden, he died. Who can help her from the pit of sorrow and agony? Actually, she also died with him; a death of darkness. All the windows of light got closed.
Then Jesus intervened. He brought her son back to life. Jesus, the shining star, shattered all the darkness in her life.

We may see the image of the widow of Nain in our own personal life. We may stand in the place of the widow near to the coffin of her son when we are at the adverse situations of our life. There may be situations, when we feel that God is not seeing our pain. On those moments of tribulations we should seek the grace of our Lord with a heart enriched with hope. Our God is near to us who relieves our pains and sorrows. Jesus would urge us to get up from everything that block from flourishing our life. One thing is quite sure, if we do not rise in this life from death- like situations, we will not do it later.
Let us pray,
 Oh! Lord Jesus help me to get up and enable me to praise and worship you. Help me to console others in their sufferings.
Amen
Bro. Jobin Puthenthara CMI
Dharmaram College, Bengaluru


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