April 26, 2017
Wednesday
2nd Week of Easter
1st Reading: Acts 5:17–26Gospel:
Jn 3:16–21
Jesus said to Nicodemus, “Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him may not be lost, but may have eternal life. God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world; instead, through him the world is to be saved. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned. He who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the Name of the only Son of God.“This is how the Judgment is made: Light has come into the world and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. (…)
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
The day after the Philippines concluded its fire prevention month in 2005, a big fire caused by an unattended candle erupted somewhere in Luzon. The old woman who started it all because she left a lit candle unattended cited the high cost of electricity to justify her use of a candle. “Mahal kasi masyado ang kuryente”, she explained. Her shocked daughter who worked as manager of a prestigious company exclaimed: “Mama, I told you many times that the company is paying for our electricity. Our light is for free!”
This news item takes us to a deeper reflection on the Light of the resurrection. Humans couldn’t afford this light. But God had long settled the huge bill. Baptism has given us access to this Light. Surprisingly, humans prefer the lower forms of light. They resort to earthly treasure when groping in the darkness of poverty, to carnal pleasure when feeling so sad and lonely, to illegitimate forms of leisure when walking in life’s monotonous alley. In effect they give the devil jurisdiction over their lives.
Once the devil acquires jurisdiction the first to suffer is our commitment to our baptismal promises.
We begin to make compromises. Haven’t we heard of the term “moderate greed” during the Arroyo Administration? The term illustrates what compromise is. To justify greed just because it is moderate is to compromise our promise made at baptism to reject sin. Greed is always sinful. Another example of compromise how employers lavish workers with bonuses and dole outs in December to appear generous, but steal part of their salaries throughout the year by paying them below-minimum wage. In their relationship with God they do not perform any better. They give to God what they earn from shady deals and donate to noble causes what they gain from corruption.
Why settle for lower forms of light when the Light of Christ that leads to the resurrection is available to us gratis et amore? – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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