September 16, 2015
Wednesday, 24th Week in Ordinary Time
1st reading:
1 Timothy 3.14-16
Gospel: Lk 7:31–35
Jesus said, “What comparison can I use for this people? What are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace, about whom their compa-nions complain: ‘We piped you a tune and you wouldn’t dance; we sang funeral songs and you wouldn’t cry.’“Remember John: he didn’t eat bread or drink wine, and you said: ‘He has an evil spirit.’ Next came the Son of Man, eating and drinking, and you say: ‘Look, a glutton for food and wine, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But the children of Wisdom always recognize her work.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
A joke is told of a psychiatrist who chanced upon a mentally challenged patient attending to a fishing rod while sitting at his bed. Since the patient looked sad, he tried to cheer him up saying, “If you will drop your fishing hook on the other side of your bed, I’m sure you will get a better catch”. The patient looked at him and said, “You fool, there ain’t no sea in here.” Hardly can we entertain a fool appearing to be one.
Jesus came to a point of feeling like it was getting as hopeless as dealing with fools trying to convert his own people. They neither believed in John who avoided food and drink, nor in him who ate with sinners. He exclaimed: “The children of Wisdom always recognize her work” (Lk. 7:35). To the man who abandons the ways of wisdom, wisdom is powerless in freeing him from folly.
Not even those who claimed to belong to the intelligent circle of society recognized the dawning of salvation in Jesus. They were too sure of their conclusions that the Messiah could not come from their neighbourhood. Too much intellectual calisthenics disabled their flexibility to oscillate with the cadence of time. Up till now they are still waiting for the Messiah to come. Theodore Roosevelt, in a speech in 1917 said, “Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time”.
Today the Lord visits us in manifold grace-filled opportunities that each day brings. But we are too “intelligent” to be responsive. When we rant about the imperfections of society it is because we are called to initiate change. We fail to respond because we just prefer to rant. Concretely, we grumble about poverty in the world but evade discussions about paying minimum wage to our employees. We find our politicians foolish. But in finding them foolish, we declare ourselves the electors of fools. This is what we get for being too intelligent to be responsive to God’s grace. Or is it for being too foolish to submit to God’s promptings? – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: [email protected]. Website: www.frdan.org.
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