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

Saturday 16 October 2021

Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time

Word for today
The Gospel of Luke 12:8-12

Evidence

In its name we kill; in its name we drag people before courts and take away their dignity and liberty. Under its banner we reduce people to poverty, keep them in slavery, oppressed by unspeakable suffering. In its name we write constitutions, volumes of laws on rights and duties;  we condemn to death the innocent and the guilty. Wars, massacres, looting, concentration camps, sieges, raids, destruction, everything is carried on in its name. We confuse life with death,  the healthy with the insane, the beautiful with the ugly, and always in its name. What are the horrible things that we do in the name of justice? What horrible acts of mass destruction have been carried out in history that have not appealed to justice? What fighting, conflict, war, torture has been perpetrated in history that has not offered its homage to justice? Every conflict is right, every struggle is necessary, every personal and collective war is just and holy, promising honor and  pride to someone. How is it possible? It is against all evidence, against the most elementary intellectual honesty. It is a sin against the Holy Spirit, a sin that cannot be forgiven.
The gospel of Jesus shows and demonstrates to the world the wicked and foolish falsity of this system, which uses justice to offend, destroy, and subdue man. The gospel is like a hot stone placed in the brain of the system of injustice, which uses justice as a screen and anesthetic. The gospel will always be opposed and fought by the system of death. This is the clearest proof that the system we have created is not for man and is not according to God's will. This is why Jesus invites His children not to defend themselves in the courts and before the authorities, because it will be the evidence of the truth and of the Spirit that will deflate the giant, bloody, satanic, foolish system that subverts order, harmony, life, and survival in the name of justice.