LIVE CATHOLIC 11:30AM |FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, YEAR C | February 9, 2025

TODAY'S REFLECTION There is a saying that ‘God does not call the qualified but qualifies the called.’ This holds true in the call of Isaiah and in the calls of Jesus’ first four disciples. Isaiah saw himself as unfit, saying, ‘I am a man of unclean lips,’ when God called him but his uncleanness did not stop God from calling him. What was necessary was his response and readiness to change. For the first four disciples, they were completely unfit to be in the presence of Jesus, as Peter said: ‘Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.’ The fact remains that willingness to render service to God and to humanity is what God wants from us. He continues to call each of us to leave everything else to do his will and spread the Gospel. We only need to ask ourselves whether we are responding to his call or ignoring it. Just as God is ready ‘to remove our wickedness and purge our sins’, we must be ready to leave everything hindering us from heeding his call.