TO EVERYONE THAT 'good in his sight' (5.17 to 37 Mt)
I wanted to call it the reflection of this sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, in fact, I think a sentence exceptionally true and absolutely clear, that appeals to our wisdom and responsibility. We find this sentence in the first reading from the Book of Sirach: "Before man are life and death, good and evil: everyone will be given what he pleases. " We often hear of obligations and constraints for the Christians: they are obliged to go to Mass on Sunday or I look bad, are required to attend catechism would not give me the sacraments, I am obliged ... ... Actually, I am obliged in ' experience of Christian life, there are no obligations, but only free choices, conscious and responsible. The statement transcribed above the Word of God, is precisely to make us think about freedom and responsibility with the man, as if he were facing a fork in the knowledge that one of the two roads leading to life and the other to death. Where the responsibility staff of the Christian regards the two goods of equal value: orientation towards the good is open to God, revealing his face and he is looking for the highest good and happiness full, choose evil is to go to a ... 'good child', a small as an idol, which will leave the person eternally unsatisfied! The message of the Gospel tells us to choose the greater good: "Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Jesus 'order' a greater justice! However, in Jesus, God likes to give us orders, just to give us orders, but because the man is right or wicked is a matter of life or death, a sense or meaning, of success or failure: "If you trust in him, even as you live ... everyone will be given what he pleases." Jesus draws our attention to four negative cases, which show many life situations, leading to death of relations: murder, adultery, divorce and duplicity. In simple and effective as Jesus teaches us the 'greater justice' is in full relationship with God and the full relationship with God, to play on relations with others, respect for life, marriage, trust. In other words, we can say that Jesus calls us to choose the path of life with conviction, realizing how fundamentally different the life of one who lives the commandment of love and that of those who despise God and neighbor. At the end we invite all to cherish in our hearts the words we heard and to draw from communion with the Body and Blood of Christ the strength to live the commandments of God as Jesus did, who lived the "greater justice."
I wanted to call it the reflection of this sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, in fact, I think a sentence exceptionally true and absolutely clear, that appeals to our wisdom and responsibility. We find this sentence in the first reading from the Book of Sirach: "Before man are life and death, good and evil: everyone will be given what he pleases. " We often hear of obligations and constraints for the Christians: they are obliged to go to Mass on Sunday or I look bad, are required to attend catechism would not give me the sacraments, I am obliged ... ... Actually, I am obliged in ' experience of Christian life, there are no obligations, but only free choices, conscious and responsible. The statement transcribed above the Word of God, is precisely to make us think about freedom and responsibility with the man, as if he were facing a fork in the knowledge that one of the two roads leading to life and the other to death. Where the responsibility staff of the Christian regards the two goods of equal value: orientation towards the good is open to God, revealing his face and he is looking for the highest good and happiness full, choose evil is to go to a ... 'good child', a small as an idol, which will leave the person eternally unsatisfied! The message of the Gospel tells us to choose the greater good: "Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." Jesus 'order' a greater justice! However, in Jesus, God likes to give us orders, just to give us orders, but because the man is right or wicked is a matter of life or death, a sense or meaning, of success or failure: "If you trust in him, even as you live ... everyone will be given what he pleases." Jesus draws our attention to four negative cases, which show many life situations, leading to death of relations: murder, adultery, divorce and duplicity. In simple and effective as Jesus teaches us the 'greater justice' is in full relationship with God and the full relationship with God, to play on relations with others, respect for life, marriage, trust. In other words, we can say that Jesus calls us to choose the path of life with conviction, realizing how fundamentally different the life of one who lives the commandment of love and that of those who despise God and neighbor. At the end we invite all to cherish in our hearts the words we heard and to draw from communion with the Body and Blood of Christ the strength to live the commandments of God as Jesus did, who lived the "greater justice."
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