Posted by The WORD in other words (2022) by Fr Vic Rayco SVD – Divine Word College of Legazpi
Monday 19th Week in Ordinary Time
When people insist with passionate rigidity on their correctness, it signifies rigor mortis. It suggests the death of the human spirit.
Isn’t that what happened when we burned at the stake those who were different, strange, or simply incomprehensible? We had reasons that justified our cruelty.
Isn’t that the reason why we went to war? We were right; they were wrong. It warranted our having to ravage their persons, land, and culture.
Isn’t that the motivation to stigmatize those who are “immoral” or sinful or wrong? It keeps us comfortably on the side of the “good ones.”
But Jesus was not like that. He asked his disciples to keep “secret” his identity as the Messiah because people had a wrong idea of it. He did not insist on not paying tax on “his Father’s house” because it would have caused more trouble than they already had.
They say that if you have a choice between being correct and being kind, choose to be kind. It will signify the depth of your heart and the intensity of your spirit.
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