December 14, 2018
Friday, 2nd Week of
Advent St. John of the Cross1st Reading: Is 48:17–19 Gospel: Mt. 11:16-19
Jesus said to the crowds, “Now, to what can I compare the peopleof this day? They are like children sitting in the marketplace, aboutwhom their companions complain: ‘We played the flute for you but youwould not dance. We sang a funeral song but you would not cry!’“For John came fasting and people said: ‘He is possessed.’ Thenthe Son of Man came, he ate and drank, and people said: ‘Look at thisman! 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 when he described the people of his time aschildren irresponsive to proper stimulus and conditions. “Now, to whatcan I compare the people of this day?” Jesus asked. “They are likechildren sitting in the marketplace, about whom their companionscomplain: ‘We played the flute for you but you would not dance. Wesang a funeral song but you would not cry!’Jesus’ explanation needs no elaboration. He said, “For John camefasting 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 anddrunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ ” This was Jesus’way of saying that the people of his generation rarely, if at all, didthings right.
Nothing much has changed today. Similar parables abound. When it istime to celebrate, people are on a diet; when it is time to fast,people go to Bantayan Island where eating pork during Holy Week isallowed. When certain family members are alive, we wish they were notalways around; when they are dead, we cry our hearts out and wish theywere alive. When we have no work we move heaven and earth tofind one; when we are employed, we drag our feet to the workplace on ablue 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 the Church, never themselves. A life spent this way hardly qualifies as a disciplined life. Nobody grows spiritually by seeking the destruction of the Church that Jesus founded. This is because the Church is the source of grace for the whole world regardless of religion. Without grace, nobody can grow spiritually.
People hardly do things right. Yet God will triumph in the end. As theGospel of today concludes, ‘the outcome will prove Wisdom right.” – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M. Email: [email protected].
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