The Credit Issue
Tuesday, 32nd week in Ordinary Time
Wis 2:23 - 3:9; Lk 17: 7-10
Though it has been there always, today in particular the consciousness of giving credits to the person who claims ownership has come to be more and more important. Recently in a discussion with a youngster he shared with me the contributions that he had made to the making of some recent movies. When I asked him why his name has not appeared on the official credits, he said "Oh that will take time. Until I establish myself firmly in the field they won't give me those credits. We are still nobody in the field! " That set me thinking!
In our work for the Reign of God, how crazy we go to take the credit for every simple thing that we do... from the donors slabs in the Churches to the monuments we wish to leave behind in our memories, from the insistence on the names to be read at mass intentions to the rustle that takes place when someone forgets to mention a name in the vote of thanks... everywhere it is a craze for credits, in varied proportions ofcourse. Blessed Mother Teresa understood well what Jesus says today, when she declared, "I am merely a pencil in the hands of God. He is the artist."
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