WORD 2day: Thursday, 10th week in Ordinary time
June 12, 2025 - 2 Corinthians 3:15 - 4:1, 3-6; Matthew 5: 20-26
The Word today warns us of the veils, the veils that can obstruct us from beholding the Lord, listening to the voice of the Lord and seeing the Lord in action right amidst us.
We are presented with the two dominant veils that hinders humanity from observing something so obvious, the presence of God in this world - the veil of pride and prejudice! Pride that fills me so much with me, myself and mine, that I do not see the other, the world, the humanity or anything other than me. Prejudice is that opinion I have about the other which makes me blind to other, absent to the other, apathetic to the other and some times even a threat to the other, that I fail to see the other, the real other. All that I see is my opinion of the other.
As a consequence of these veils, the pride within me and the prejudice about the other, I am lost in presumption and I think, I am all that I need to have a meaningful life on this earth! What a folly, a folly that is slowly and steadily taking over the entire humanity, in the name of scientificity, autonomy, self sufficiency and technocracy!
The only remedy that we can foresee, is our docility to the Spirit, to the Spirit who penetrates our hearts as the light of the Lord, the voice of the Lord, the finger of the Lord that touches and brings us to life, to light and to the truth - that we may see beyond the veils of pride and prejudice and see our brothers and sisters, their dignity and the gift that they are, with the love with which the Lord has loved us: and we shall behold the Lord, here and now!