WORD 2day: Friday, 29th week in Ordinary time
October 21, 2022: Ephesians 4: 1-6; Luke 12: 54-59
A couple had come with a problem to be sorted out between them. Discussing their problem, even after a long while, we could see no way out of the problem no matter how much we tried making sense of what was happening. Finally I had to remind them of the sad fact: 'we can awaken a person who is sleeping, but not the one who pretends to be sleeping!' Is it not true? For most of the problems today, it is not that we do not have a solution, but we do not want to arrive at it.
Jesus gives a piece of his mind to the pharisees and scribes, because he finds in them the hypocrisy of not choosing things that were so obviously towards the right. Its like a group of people, in our own times, in spite of knowing that their leader is at fault, be it in the policies or in the individual decisions made, that affect not only their immediate context but also the world at large, they still hold on to the leader's stand and justify it tooth and nail.
Simply speaking the problems in the world are due to the lack of oneness of vision that afflicts us... each one with a selfish agenda, or groups with unfounded prejudices, classes with insensitive urge for advancement, persons with inhuman tendencies of manipulation and exploitation... these are persons who could not care less about the golden rule. They have a set of rules for themselves and a completely different one for others. These are people filled with discrepancies and disparities, and will be the least likely to enter the Reign of God.
Are we in any chance among those in that list? If we do not wish to be, we need to take the personal responsibility of finding all the possibilities and occasions of creating the oneness of vision - that alone will be truly personal and Christian integrity.