Mercy: the image of God
Friday, 15th week in Ordinary Time
Exo 11:10 - 12:14; Mt 12: 1-8
How do you look at the teacher who gets upset with all the e students who failed in a class test and as a reparation announces a special class after school hours for three days... it is not only the students but the teacher too, or especially the teacher who has to undergo the ordeal of that punishment. That teacher is a genuine type of a teacher who doesn't hesitate to give of oneself for the sake of the students.
What kind of an imagery do we get of the All merciful Father and Mother who instructs the people to mark out themselves with the blood and gives them God's own son's blood as the blood of redemption! It can be no other image than that of Mercy. When we are merciful we carry the image of God within us. When we lack mercy, however sacrificing we are or however successful we are in anything, we do not carry or project the true image of God!