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

Friday 19 February 2021

Friday after Ash Wednesday

Word for today
The Gospel of Matthew 9:14-15

Joy

Unhappiness is constantly concerned about its dissatisfaction and protects its status disguised as duty and guilt. For this reason, unhappiness needs legality to fantasize and legality needs unhappiness to thrive.
Being unhappy is the biggest and worst of all sins, it is like being constantly offended by life and fighting against God. Jesus, the Son of God, meets us, pitches his tent among us, warms us with His love and compassion, He frees us from deception, dries our tears, reveals the sacred procedures for a happy life, full of joy, health, goodness and luminous sharing, and yet the human mind germinates stupidity, which generates a thought and then words such as: Why do we and the Pharisees fast (much), but your disciples do not fastThat is to say:  those of you who are with Jesus, why are you not sad and do not do sad things in a sad way? If you are disciples of a religion or of a spiritual movement, you must have your dose of sadness and legality, gloominess and duty, guilty thoughts and rules, otherwise what empty spirituality are you following and practicing?
Jesus' answer reveals that there will indeed be days of sadness and tears, of mourning and of grief, but they will not come because of God's will or because grief and sadness are part of His heart or because they represent a necessary step for evangelical development. According to the Gospel, fasting should not bring sadness, but it should be done only out of love, with joy and gratitude. The days of
mourning will also come, they will come because Jesus, the Lover, the Bridegroom of mankind, will be treated with betrayal, tortured and made to suffer a violent death. Humanity is unhappy solely because, tempted by Satan, it has lost the way of love and of intimacy with God, the Bridegroom, the Lover, and has taken the path of evil and stupidity. Unhappiness is never part of God's plan, it has never been and will never be the fruit of the will, the desire and prospects of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.