09 December 2016
Friday, 2nd Week
of Advent
1st Reading: Is 48:17–19Gospel: 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 never do things right in God’s eyes. This was what Jesus wanted to point out when he compared the people of his time to children who cannot appropriately respond to a given stimulus. The incapacity was not because of physical impairment but because of too much preoccupation with matters of the flesh. Jesus said, “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!’”
Jesus explained the metaphor in this wise: “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…!’ ”
This circumstance notwithstanding, Jesus went ahead with his mission to save the world, believing that “The outcome will prove Wisdom to be right”. The meaning of this quote is that having intrinsic power of its own, the fulfillment of Jesus’ salvific work was to be its own vindication.
Nothing much has changed today because we still don’t do things right. Let’s cite few examples. When certain family members are alive, people wish they were somewhere else. But when these “unwanted” family members are dead, they cry their hearts out and wish they’d come back to life. When people are unemployed, they move heaven and earth to get a job; when they finally have a job, they drag their feet to the workplace as if it were a blue Monday every day. The same attitude operates at the spiritual level. When it is time to feast on a legitimate celebration people go on a diet. But when it is time to fast during Holy Week, people go to Bantayan Island where eating meat on Holy Week is allowed by tradition.
Even if we don’t do things right, God will still save us. He willll remain faithful even if we are unfaithful, for he cannot betray himself. In the end, God’s love will triumph. “The outcome will prove wisdom to be right”. -(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM., MAPM., MMExM., REB., Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com.
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