Kingdom Task: Renounce Arrogance
Saturday, 2nd week in Advent, 2016
Sir 48: 1-4,9-11 ;Mt 17: 9a, 10-13
One of our formators at our early stages used to repeat this so often that it can never leave my mind: you can wake up someone who is asleep, not the one who pretends to be so. The question of Elijah comes up and Jesus responds more than a bit like the aforesaid formator. Jesus lays bare the arrogance that the Jews had, which was instrumental in doing away with such numerous prophets. Jesus knew all the while what awaits him with such stiff necked people. Before we go ahead to blame those people, let us direct the question to ourselves: how prepared are we to receive the revelation from God, even from and especially from the poorest sections of the population. In our arrogance, we would miss the Lord passing by, we would miss the words that can give us new life, we would remain stunted and dwarfed in our spiritual life. Renounce arrogance to receive the Lord!
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