December 11, 2015 Friday, 2nd Week of Advent 1st Reading: Is 48:17–19 Gospel: Mt 11:16–19
Jesus said to the crowds, “Now, to what can I compare the people of this day? They are like children sitting in the marketplace, about whom their companions complain: ‘We played the flute for you but you would not dance. We sang a funeral song but you would not cry!’ “For John came fasting and people said: ‘He is possessed.’ Then the Son of Man came, he ate and drank, and people said: ‘Look at this man! A glutton and drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet the outcome will prove Wisdom to be right.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE (Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life Experience)
People rarely do things right in the eyes of God. This was what Jesuswanted to point out in today’s Gospel reading. When John the Baptist lived in the desert hardly eating or drinking, they said he was possessed. But when Jesus came dining more often, especially with sinners, they called him a glutton.
We too hardly do things right in the eyes of men, let alone in the eyes of God. When we were children we acted like grown ups; but now that we are grown ups we act like children and cheat on our age.
When it is time to feast, we fast to remain slim; but when it is time to fast, we feast and fill our bellies to the brim. We wish certain family members were not around; but when they are dead, we cry our hearts out and wish they were alive. When we have no work we move heaven and earth to find one; when we are employed, we drag our feet to the workplace on a blue Monday and wish it were a holiday.At the spiritual level, people change religion dissatisfied with the lack of discipline in the Catholic Church. But after the switch, they spend their life criticizing their former Church – a mark of spiritual indiscipline. Life hardly qualifies as disciplined if spent criticizing others instead of criticizing the self. Nobody grows spiritually by maligning other religions.
Jesus compared the people of his times to children who could not react properly to the goings on of their surroundings. To what will Jesus liken the people of today? Probably he’d say, “Now, to what can
I compare the people of this day? They are like electric thermos bottles that can no longer communicate heat to its water content because of the impurities that insulate its inner walls.”
The impurities of sin make people insensitive to Wisdom. What people consider wise nowadays are the ways of manipulations and machinations, not the ways of truth, honesty and faith. But the outcome will prove God’s wisdom right. – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM . Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website: www.frdan.org.
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