{"id":1763,"date":"2017-10-02T10:39:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T08:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jp2doc.pl\/en\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2017-10-02T10:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T08:39:36","slug":"be-crushed-and-renewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jp2doc.pl\/en\/2017\/10\/02\/be-crushed-and-renewed\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be Crushed\u2026 and Renewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many messages in today\u2019s Gospel\u2026 too many to develop each into a meaningful reflection. There is an obvious reference to filial obedience. Sometimes we have good intentions and they fizzle out to nothing when it comes to action. At other times, surprisingly even to ourselves, we follow God\u2019s will despite everything we had publicly proclaimed and had even planned.<br \/>\nWhen something like that happens to me, I know it was the Holy Spirit or Virgin Mary or my guardian angel who directed me to the good action, gave me strength to oppose evil, endowed me with courage to act contrary to my weak nature. Am I grateful enough for those moments of my filial obedience?<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Jesus\u2019 words can shake us to the core<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>There is yet another strain of thought in this Gospel, rather difficult to follow. Time and again Jesus overturns our human thinking literally upside down. Last week we had the workers of the single, \u201c11th hour\u201d receive full payment for work. Illogical, isn\u2019t it? This week we hear that the thieving collaborators with occupants and the prostitutes are entering Kingdom of God before the decent people who are clean-living and observe religious law to the letter.<br \/>\nThis mind-boggling statement of Jesus, if taken seriously (as it should be \u2013 these are the words of God), can shake one to the core.<br \/>\nWhy would the \u201cscum of society\u201d be allowed into the Kingdom at all? What was so special about the prostitutes and the tax collectors that gave them priority before the righteous, religious, Law-observing men? And &#8211; on which side am I, myself? Am I a hybrid, a bit of both?<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Allowing to be surprised by God\u2019s love<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>In their hope of achieving God\u2019s blessing and favour the \u201cchief priests and elders of the people\u201d (named so by the Gospel author) relied on their intelligence, learning, their knowledge of the Law and meticulous observation of it. They were very, very conscious of their position as religious leaders and role models for commoners. They abhorred sin and sinner alike. Would they have walked into the waters of Jordan to be baptized by John? No way! \u2013 how could they? That would have amounted to admitting that they were sinners, like the rest.<br \/>\nWhen time and again they came to ask Jesus who he was, they did not really listen to his words. It is always an interrogation. They had all the answers they needed, their own answers.<br \/>\nThey refused to be surprised by Love and did not need it. They needed their human order to continue and while busy sorting sins of the others into categories meriting varying punishments, they forgot all about Mercy.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Healed by His Mercy<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Unlike them, the prostitutes and the tax collectors, those despicable public sinners were well aware of their low moral status. Those were the times when you did not deny sins committed. Ten Commandments were still known. A thief knew he was a thief and a woman working streets accepted the fact that honest women would not talk to her, the slut. They were crushed by the weight of their sins and that is why they were also open to Love, overwhelming them, purifying them, healing and bringing joy with it.<br \/>\nIt is good to be crushed \u2013 even by our sins \u2013 if the resulting wounds and then the joy at being forgiven open us to Jesus. 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