May24: Love God and Do What You Will

Anonymous Master: Saint Peter
Saint Nicholas Church, Studenica Monastery
Serbia and Montenegro, first half of 17th cent.

Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

Gospel: Mk 10:28-31

Peter began to say to Jesus, “Look, we have left everything and followed you (NRSV, Mk 10:28).”

Father, Peter thought that he had to leave everything to follow Jesus. What you do require of us, Lord, is to make you the center and focus of everything that we are and everything that we do. To empower us to make this decision, through the Word always present to us, you give us your life in the Holy Spirit. Once we have accepted your life into our own everything that is meaningful to us is returned to us just as we need and desire it.

Father, you have chosen us, all of us. As we accept you, nothing is left behind but all is transformed so that it may be lived in you. May we ever be responsive to the invitation that you offer us through the Word in the Holy Spirit. Amen.