Monday, 19 September 2016
25th Week
in Ordinary Time
First Reading: Prv 3: 27-34
Gospel Reading: Lk 8:16-18
Jesus said to his disciples, “No one, after lighting a lamp covers it with a bowl or puts it under the bed; rather he puts it on a lampstand so that people coming in may see the light. In the same way, there is nothing hidden that shall not be uncovered; nothing kept secret that shall not be known clearly.
“D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
I had a dream. I was driving to the Northern part of Cebu and was somewhere in a very secluded area when a big truck drove past me with a speed faster than the wave of its Doppler sound. It was a huge tanker hauling for a purified water company. It was running so fast in an attempt to gain momentum for an uphill climb. But when it reached the crest its momentum sent it flying like a motorcycle driving swiftly through a ramp. It fell down the ravine.
Quickly I called up Cebu Daily News while the accident was still happening. A photographer who picked up my call was in a hurry to leave yet polite enough to explain that someone had already alerted him about the accident. He was actually on his way to the accident scene. After I hanged up the phone, I heard a dirge – a medley of lines from “Ave Maria” and “The Prayer” – coming from a big military truck that almost occupied both lanes. On board were uniformed members of the military sent to nurse the wounded and collect the bodies of the dead. The military truck stopped at the gate of the Archbishop’s Residence compound where I used to reside. A simple prayer service was initiated by Msgr. Joseph Tan, a priest who used to reside at the building near the gate of the compound. He sprinkled Holy Water on the dead and invited me to do the same. Other priests joined us.
If that dream does not carry any special dispatch for me, it sure has a special message in relation to the Gospel reading today. I called up CDN in that dream because being the only witness I felt it was my responsibility to make the accident known to the public. But the news reached the media even before I, the only witness to the accident, was able to report it. This goes with today’s Gospel message: there is nothing hidden that shall not be uncovered.
By nature secrets are whispered everywhere, which is why William Congreve in his ‘Love for love’ exclaimed, “I know that’s a secret, for it is whispered everywhere.” The hugeness of the delivery truck and the enormity of the military truck highlight the impossibility of hiding secrets. Hypocrites have reasons to worry because, “there is nothing hidden that shall not be uncovered…”– (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM, MMExM, MAPM, REB. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com.
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