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

Monday 27 July 2020

Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

Word for today
The Gospel of Matthew 13:31-35

Proportions

The kingdom of Heaven, the way of living offered by the Holy Spirit, is connected to the power of small and simple realities. The way of living offered by the Holy Spirit does not need the magnifying glass of ambition. The way of living offered by the Holy Spirit does not need the vortex of greed simply because greed is destructive as it destroys everything it touches. The way of living offered by the Holy Spirit does not need vanity's support simply because vanity makes any human endeavor foolish and useless. The way of living offered by the Holy Spirit is an effective and consistent procedural system which complies with the facts of reality but not with confusing, high-sounding speeches. The way of living offered by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual system that grows and develops in harmony, through simple, humble gestures and faithful steps, as it never needs to interpret life as an object of arrogance or harassment. The way of living offered by the Holy Spirit  does not need to rely on human power, it does not feed on possession and dominion.
The way of living offered by the Holy Spirit is a system created by God's calming peace for man's happiness and welfare, and it never needs to strain or act in haste to grow in our hearts because it is supported by all the powers and forces of the multiverses which are dedicated to goodness, harmony and beauty.
The way of living offered by Satan is a system based on the arrogance of the powerful, on the terror of dictatorship, on the domination of the rich, on the greed of rapacious wolves, on the strained development of those who pursue only their own benefit through economic oppression, moral persuasion, the concentration of power, deception and ignorance.
The way of living offered by Satan is committed to destruction and death and it acts in haste because it does not have  time on its side. The Evil one must use high-sounding, showy, pompous, grandiose, elaborate, intrusive  expedients to get people on his side because he knows that he does not have all time at his disposal. The Evil one is in a hurry, in a terrible hurry, he suffers from anxiety, agitation, restlessness,  tension, because he knows that he does not have all time at his disposal, and all the multiverses of creation, although under the yoke of his rebellion against God, are not on his side and they will return to the light from which they came. The Evil One is anxious to get as many men and women as possible on his side; he knows that he does not have all time at his disposal and he knows he is alone, terribly and tragically alone, forever. No one is on his side, not even those who have made an alliance with him by selling themselves to him and subjecting themselves to him. The way of living offered by the Holy Spirit is a system created by God's calming peace which is never in a hurry because all of time, all of God's infinite, loving, compassionate time is on its side.