Friday, September 09, 2016
23rd Week
in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: 1 Cor 9: 16-19. 22b-27
Gospel: Lk 6:39-42
Jesus offered this example, “Can a blind person lead another blind person? Surely both will fall into a ditch. A disciple is not above the master; but when fully trained, he will be like the master. So why do you pay attention to the speck in your brother’s eye while you have a log in your eye and are not conscious of it? How can you say to your neighbor: ‘Friend, let me take this speck out of your eye,’ when you can’t remove the log in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the log from your own eye and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your neighbor’s eye.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
The h.y.p.o.c.r.i.t.e. “hides” behind the insufficiencies of others. He rises to greatness not on his own merits. This win-lose paradigm of a hypocrite person is destructive because it seeks to put others down. He “yields” to flattery because his self-image is dependent on what others say. He has no identity because he easily yields to social pressure. Thus he lives in “pretense”. He appears strong though broken deep inside. Full of nothing but rotten bones, he cannot project anything positive, which explains the negative energy he radiates.
The hypocrite is“opinionated”. He dominates in the planning but disappears during execution because he is too selfish to give himself to concrete service. He is “critical” of others but never of himself. Recall that the antonym of hypocrisy is sincerity, which comes from the Latin ‘sine’ (without) and ‘cera’ (wax). The hypocrite is like a corpse waxed to appear good (Matt. 23:27). Each occasion to talk about others is a chance to spew rotten things abounding deep inside him. “From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matt. 12:34).
The hypocrite “resents” the realities of life. He lives in dissatisfaction and believes the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. To sanitize poor self-image, he “invests” on externals such as wealth, power and influence. He is “tepid” in spirituality. He is neither irreligious because he observes religious traditions, nor religious because his observance is for a show. This makes him the lukewarm Christian that Yahweh will vomit (Rev. 3:16). He is “egoistic”. He sees insult where none is meant. He is the typical person who jokes a lot but takes offense at the jokes of others.
The hypocrites have more attributes not covered by the acronym. So don’t feel relieved if none of the above fits you. In the eyes of God we are all hypocrites! – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM, MMExM, MAPM, REB. Email: [email protected].
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