Righteousness that liberates!

WORD 2day: Thursday, 10th week in Ordinary time

June 15, 2023: 2 Corinthians 3:15 - 4:1, 3-6; Matthew 5: 20-26

Righteousness that surpasses that of the scribes and the pharisees... that is an interesting perspective to look at. The readings of today would be very handy for the orientation that the Holy Father Pope Francis has been repeatedly offering the Church from the time he took up his papacy... the call to holiness, in concrete terms of personal integrity and community witness! 

Holiness is not some kind of an external showmanship, nor is it an imposed grandeur of a mysterious element that makes something or someone valuable; it is the simplicity of truth that is seen plainly in one's life and ways. Keeping our faith "unveiled" is the key to understand the challenge of the readings today. 

Let us live our faith... should we fail in the process now or later, it does not really matter! Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom! The sons and daughters of a liberating God cannot live in fear, not even the fear of making mistakes! Let us go out and live, and live our life to the full. Unveiled and Shining, Unfettered and Liberated, let us live a life of righteousness which does not consist of mere abiding by laws but consists in warm and mature relationships. 

A Christianity that cannot be translated in terms of loving, liberating and respectful interpersonal relationships, is nothing more than the righteousness of the scribes and pharisees! What difference do we make? Aren't we called to surpass that lame kind of a righteousness to a Righteousness that liberates?