Wednesday, September 20, 2017 24th Week in
Ordinary Time 1st
Reading: 1 Tim 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 companions 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 psychiatrist chances upon a patient at a mental hospital sitting on his bed while holding a fishing rod. He looks sad so the psychiatrist cheers him up saying, “If you drop your fishing hook on the other side of your bed you will get a better catch”. The patient looks at the psychiatrist and says, “Are you out of your mind? How can one catch fish on a concrete floor?” Hardly can we entertain a fool without becoming fools ourselves.
God too looked like he was dealing with fools in trying to save the Chosen People. He sent them John the Baptist. But him they did not believe because he was weird. He lived in the desert and he hardly ate and drank. Then God sent his only Son who walked in their midst. Him they did not believe either. He was eating and drinking too much with sinners. There was no way God could connect with them because they have abandoned the ways of wisdom. Only the children of wisdom can recognize God’s work (Luke 7:35). Wisdom is powerless over a man who abandons the ways of the wise.
There were many who belonged to the intellectual circle of the Jewish society. The Scribes and Pharisees, for example, were highly educated. But far from being wise they were arrogant. They were too sure of their conclusions that the Messiah could not come from their neighbourhood. So they ended up rejecting the Messiah who was in their midst. Up till now the Jews 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”.
God too finds it hard to connect with us because we have abandoned the ways of wisdom. We have instead adopted the ways of pragmatism that abhors due process. But what is pragmatic is not always wise. If it were the way of the wise, God would have embraced it in dealing with humanity. If God would just wipe out all bad people because it is the pragmatic thing to do, who among us would survive? No he won’t! God won’t descend to the level fools! –(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM.
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