In this section you can find a daily commentary on the Gospel of the Day.

Monday 28 January 2019

Third Week in Ordinary Time

Word for today
Gospel of Mark 3:22-30

Evidence

God's children will be forgiven all their sins and even their curses. All sins will be forgiven them because, due to the terrible illusion of ignorance, of greed, and of the pursuit of pleasure, it is impossible to find any trace of the real, total, comprehensive awareness of the harm caused when we commit a sin. All cursing will be forgiven because God's mercy is before and beyond any justice, and in particular because no one would even think of cursing if he/she stood before God Himself, if he/she could see Him and contemplate Him in all His glory. But cursing against the Holy Spirit wiil never be forgiven, not now, not ever, not for all eternity.
In view of the evidence and of good's healing power, it is blasphemy to slander, to insult, to sully goodness to convince oneself and persuade others that good is evil. In view of evidence and of evil's destructive power, it is blasphemy to justify, to exalt, to sugar coat evil to convince and persuade others that evil is good. This is blasphemy, a sin against the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete. To soil the name of the One who has just healed you from an illness, enlightened you leading you out of darkness of ignorance, given you confidence after despair, to slander Jesus who has just delivered a child of God from the devil, accusing Him of being the king of demons is to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit. To curse the healing evidence of good, to glorify the destructive evidence of evil is to blaspheme the Paraclete. To curse the evidence of light and goodness means, on the one hand, to commit a sin which can never be forgiven, it is to decide to put oneself out of mercy's reach forever, and, on the other, to choose self-destruction in the present moment. In the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 33 verse 1, we read: Woe to you that destroy and have not been destroyed, that deceive and have not been deceived! As soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed, as soon as you finish deceiving, you will be deceived (literal translation from the Hebrew).