Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 23,23-26.
Jesus said: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. (But) these you should have done, without neglecting the others.
Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence.
Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean.”
Do not neglect the essential.
1) Money more than life: it is the characteristics of these Pharisees. Today we can also fall into this believing that with money we can buy God. Do not! Today God asks you to grow in mercy and justice; otherwise we will fall into the “Don corleone” syndrome (The Godfather) where he always helped the Church of Sicily but killed half the world. We can not fall into this syndrome where we are stuck every day in the parish or in the group but we kill others with criticism and gossip, moreover, we even kill with our attitudes of indifference and envy. Our life is not marked by it.
2) Filter the mosquito and eat the camel: how many times do we fall in this. Where we believe we are the owners of the truth, we even become unbearable to others so that they fulfill certain rubrics but we don’t. It is sad when we see brothers who use the religion to serve themselves instead of remembering that we are simple servants.
3) Blind: today we live blindly, we question everything and we all believe we are opinion makers. We love to comment on what we do not know and we love to question everything or everyone. Believing ourselves owner of the truth. Remember the words of St. Augustine “Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new”. To love God is to remember that we become eternal and that the Christian life is a testimony, not imposed. So, who works to be a good Christian helps others to meet Christ because, as St Agustin also said:“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”
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