May 13, 2014
Tuesday, 4th Week of Easter
OUR LADY OF FATIMA
1st Reading: Acts 11:19–26
Gospel: Jn 10:22–30
The time came for the feast of the Dedication. It was winter and Jesus walked back and forth in the portico of Solomon. The Jews then gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in doubt? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered, “I have already told you but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name proclaim who I am, but you don’t believe because, as I said, you are not my sheep.
“My sheep hear my voice and I know them; they follow me and I give them eternal life. They shall never perish and no one will ever steal them from me. What the Father has given me is stronger than everything and no one can snatch it from the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
We have not become precious to God because his Son died for us. Rather, we have always been precious to him from the start which is why he did not spare his Son in looking for ways to reclaim us from the clutches of the enemy. In today’s Gospel reading Jesus is making a very big commitment that we “shall never perish and no one will ever steal (us) from (him)” (John 10:29). So all we need to do to be safe is stay in God’s fold, the Church. If we follow the teachings and guidance of the Church we stand secure from the manipulations of the evil one.
Because the Church is God’s voice on earth she will always insist on the moral option in guiding her flock. Valid practical considerations can never make up for breach of morality especially where moral options are still available. The path to hell is paved with good intentions. In protecting her flock the Church will not sanction the immoral option simply because the intention is good and the option is convenient. The moral principle that the end does not justify the end has not been abrogated.
The RH Law has finally been declared by the Supreme Court as “not unconstitutional”. The RH Law now makes it legal to use contraceptives. But what is legal is not always moral. God cannot be bound by human laws although in many ways he respects them.
The Church is inviting God’s flock to the moral option of imposing self discipline. This is the time to listen intently to the Shepherd’s voice. While Jesus has promised in today’s Gospel to see to it that no one shall ever perish anymore and that no one shall ever snatch us away from him, he cannot override our freedom should we opt to run away and refuse to be guided by him through his Church. -Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: [email protected]. Website: www.frdan.org.
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