July 26, 2014Saturday
Saints Joachim and Ann
1st Reading: Sir 44:1, 10–15
Gospel: Mt 13:16–17
Jesus said to his disciples, “But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears, because they hear.“For I tell you that many prophets and upright people would have longed to see the things you see, but they did not, and to hear the things you hear, but they did not hear it.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
How fortunate we are to be alive today. Our ancestors could be squirming in their graves for missing the comforts we are enjoying. For one thing, technology is so amazing, and to think that it is just one aspect of life, makes us marvel at how wonderful it is to be alive! Be it in the physical or spiritual level, life has a lot to offer. The seemingly limitless sky in which technology can spread its wings makes us wonder whether any exploration of the depths of life’s possibilities will ever hit bottom.
Here’s a caveat: there is a default system built into life that establishes an inverse relationship between the spiritual and the physical. Thus the more you go into life’s physical possibilities, the farther you navigate away from its spiritual port. Look at how far technology has taken us away from Christian values. Technology is making us forget that this world is temporary; it even renders God redundant. The speed that technology has procured for human beings has made humans impatient and intolerant of sacrifice. This is influencing key decisions of human beings. On the population control issue, for example, human beings easily set aside the moral option of self-discipline and take technology’s contraceptive option hook line and sinker.
Technology has also made human beings incapable of prudent analysis because with the computer doing most of the thinking for them, they only consider immediate results and ignore the far-reaching consequences of their decisions. In embracing the contraceptive option, for example, they have ignored the damage that the next generation will stand to suffer because of the shift to contraceptive mentality. Contraceptive mentality once ingrained, people will begin to dissociate the sexual act from man’s sacred duty to procreate.
The contraceptive issue is just one of the many examples we can cite. Considering technology’s impact on our value system, we doubt whether our ancestors are envious at all of the comforts we are enjoying. But we can still make things better. We can actually establish a balance between our material and spiritual quests. All we need to do is restore the value system of old when human beings were still God-fearing. – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: [email protected]. Website: www.frdan.org.
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