Be compassionate-right here and right now!
Monday, 11th week in Ordinary Time
2 Cor 6: 1-10; Mt 5: 38-42
The better is the enemy of the good, Don Bosco used to say, in the context of doing good to the other. At times I have caught myself lamenting the times and the conditions instead of doing whatever little I could to express my true compassion. If only I were someone else or if only I were somewhere else or if only I had such and such a possibility... these are the yearning for the better that neglects the good that is already available.
The Gospel today invites us to go out of our way to express or computation to the other and the first reading adds that now is the time and now is the hour for it. We may not be able to give or do great things for those whom we come across in dire need, but we can always be compassionate, caring and respectful towards them, wherever we are! Does that need a special condition or time?