Pathways of Hope: "What is Your Heart's Desire?"

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary TimeMemorial of Our Lady of Lourdes GOSPEL OF THE DAY: MARK 7:14-23Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”Reflection by John Paul Felix: Missionary for Human Resource Business Partner. Covenanted for Christ Community(CFCC), Malaysia. Serving in core team of FIAT (Friends in Action for Christ, Kuala Lumpur) and Christ's Youth in Action (University Outreach, Penang)