Daily Gospel Reflection for June 4, 2024

Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

Today's Gospel: Mark 12:13-17

In today’s Gospel, our Lord asks the Pharisees and Herodians to bring Him a denarius to look at. When they oblige, our Lord says,

“Whose image and inscription is this?”

Now imagine Christ asking you to bring your child to Him. Looking at your son or daughter, He says to you, “Whose image and inscription is on this child?”

So often we are tempted to think of our children as belonging to us. We feed, protect, care for, teach, and love them. They become so much a part of us that it’s easy to forget that they aren’t ours.

Our sons and daughters bear the image of God. Though they may have your eye color or your husband’s freckles, ultimately, they are made in God’s image and likeness. They are His.

While on this earth, God has entrusted these precious souls to us. And we need to continually give to God what belongs to God: we need to encourage our children to discern and follow God’s will for their vocations. We may have personal hopes and dreams for these children of ours, but these must take a backseat to the biggest dream: for our children to become saints.

When we think about it, what do we have that doesn’t belong to God? Everything we have is a gift from God to us. Our very life is a gift! If God has given all of these wondrous and amazing things to me, what am I giving to Him today?

Ponder:

Do I pray for my children’s vocation each day—whether that be married life, the priesthood, or other call to apostolic celibacy?

Pray:

Thank you, God, for entrusting my husband and me with the gift of our children—Your children. Help us to raise these sons and daughters to give glory to You by their lives of virtue.

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