REFLECTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE – by Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart
In today’s Gospel Jesus talks to us about service.
If Jesus appeared to you in the flesh and asked you to be a special disciple, what do you imagine that might entail?
How do you picture ‘big-time’ service – living in the inner city? volunteering at a shelter? spending a week at a mission? doing voluntary work for a summer? or joining a missionary order and spending the rest of your life in Africa?
How do you picture ‘ordinary’ service? Give some examples. Some jobs have great potential for simple human service, for example, smiling and being extra friendly as you bag groceries, looking out for what the children may need as you babysit, noticing whose coffee cup is empty as you wait on tables, or being sure the newspapers you deliver are always placed close to your customers’ door.
What are some simple things that you might do every day that can be compared to giving someone a cup of cold water?
What kind of reward do you think comes to someone who serves another?
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