Goodness to strangers - How Strange!
Saturday, 32nd week in Ordinary Time
3 Jn 5-8; Lk 18: 1-8
The first reading today speaks of the Godliness in being good to strangers. But doesn't that sound strange in today's context. People find being good to the good, a little too tedious. The population of the kind that Jesus speaks of in the Gospel - those who do neither fear God nor respect people - is on the rise and with no qualms of conscience. Religious or Irreligious, educated or uneducated, male or female ...nothing serves an exception to this condition. The generation is becoming more and more insensitive. Killing for a pittance, killing for honour, killing for payment, killing for religion, killing for profits, killing for property, killing for convenience...what is humanity going towards? With all these speaking of being good to strangers - how strange! Be ready to be considered strange - that's being Christian!