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

Saturday 27 August 2022

Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time

Word for today
The Gospel of Matthew 25:14-30

Invest

There is no guarantee that a man will be able to discover and realize the divine mission he was born to achieve in this world using his gifts, his talents and wealth, for the good of all. But even if, for whatever reason, a man is unable to realize his divine mission, he should at least do all in his power to avoid becoming life's evil, lazy servant.  But how can someone avoid becoming life's evil, lazy servant? Those who think badly of God and of life, to the point that they are convinced that God and life reap where they have not sown and gather where they have not planted, cannot dedicate their energy to being grateful, to praising and being thankful for life's wonders; as a result they become life's evil, lazy servants. Cultivating negative judgements towards God and His love, thinking badly of Him and feeling betrayed or forgotten by Him makes an individual evil, and this psychic and spiritual attitude cancels gratitude from the heart. Continuously criticizing others and life without trying to improve oneself, without investing one's energy in psychic-spiritual gratitude and praise, is the inner attitude that disconnects man from the energy of life and from unity with God. Criticizing God and not being grateful towards Life makes an individual very miserable inside and mean-spirited towards others, weak and without energy, narrow-minded, petty, but also aggressive and arrogant. Criticizing God and not being grateful towards Life leads inexorably to inner desolation, to psychic destitution, to the crudest avarice and makes one become sterile affectively, emotionally withered. That is why Jesus reveals to humanity one of the most powerful and dominant laws of life: For to everyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.