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

Tuesday 21 February 2023

Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Word for today
The Gospel of Mark 9:30-37

Church

Jesus' Church was not meant to alienate man from God using domination, legalistic and cold arrogance, detached and merciless presumption. It was not to serve as a den and hiding place for the greedy rulers of this world, who, like puppets in the hands of the devil, use people's ignorance and fear  to eradicate humanity from the knowledge, awareness, dignity, dreams of peace and of love, prosperity, happiness. Jesus' Church was not to be turned into a sharp throne of power and ambition, thirst for power and greed, through which the ruling powerful wolves try to climb up on all sides, so as to dominate over men and their consciences. Jesus' Church, according to His desire, was the house without doors, full of light, at complete service to humanity, it was humanity's humble servant, meant to awake man from the lethargy of the satanic deception and to guide him toward a new and wonderful relationship with God, with himself and with nature. Jesus' Church knows no power, no form of human power, but the power of welcoming love, of caring, protecting the little ones, of those humble ones who are the waste product of the bulldoze  in the hands of the powerful wolves of humanity. Jesus' Church has the task of saving the little ones of the earth from the jaws of the great powers not only through love, but also through prevention, which lies in wisdom and knowledge, in unveiling satanic deception, in the dissolution of social, economic and political dependencies. Jesus' Church has the task of freeing man from his slavery, not of lulling and anesthetizing him even more deeply with fear so as to hand him over to those who think only of their own advantage and interest. Jesus' Church, if it is not fully and assiduously at the side of the little ones of the earth and history, it has already chosen to side with the great of the earth and of history, and therefore is not at God's side but at the Enemy's side.