Mc 6,30-34 – Saturday of the Fourth Week of Ordinary Time
“The apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught. And he said to them: «Come aside, to a solitary place, and rest a while»”. No CEO would have reacted like this faced with the story of such an undertaking. After all, the apostles were telling him their successes.
But Jesus doesn’t seem interested in those results, because he is more interested in them, in their person, in their humanity, in their heart, in their tiredness, in the meaning of their life. Precisely for this reason he invites them to take time for themapart, in a solitary place, to rest, to be with him for a while.
It is an immense lesson that we should all learn, and that is that we did not come into the world to simply do things and accumulate results, but we came into the world to enjoy this life, to be happy. Precisely for this reason Jesus came to remind us that only when we cultivate a true spiritual life do we experience the regeneration of ourselves.
Before him we are like those crowds who search for him as if desperate: “When he disembarked, he saw a large crowd and was moved by them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things”. As everything would change if we really believed that we cared about him and we are not pawns of a mechanism that escapes us or of a company in which we are exploited! Jesus is interested in me, not my results!
Saturday 7 February 2026 – (Saturday of the Fourth Week of Ordinary Time – Even Year)
