Contemplating today's Gospel
Liturgic day: Friday 2nd of Advent
Comment: Fr. Pere GRAU i Andreu (Les Planes, Barcelona, Spain)
«Yet the outcome will prove Wisdom to be right»
Today, let's stop to think about how often it is that we have to go to funerals. However... it's not very often that think about our own funeral. It is just like a subconscious strategy which postpones our death sine die.
Just observing the rhythm of what surrounds us in nature reminds us of this fact. We deduce that —in a certain way— we are not that different from a plant, or any other living thing... We are bound by, whether we like it or not, the same natural law as all the other creatures surrounding us. With a very important difference!: The origin of our life, a life in the image and likeness of God, made for eternity.
Advent is infused with this idea. The Lord comes, in great splendor, and visits His people, with peace, talking of eternal life. It is a warning: «Yet the outcome will prove Wisdom to be right» (Mt 11:19). Let's have a receptive attitude to Lord!
«Prepare the way of the Lord, level his paths» (Mk 1:3), the Dominican II of Advent (cycle B) reads. Be careful how you behave socially! it seems to suggest today. It is as though it were saying: —Do not be an obstacle to God's loving communication.
It is necessary to smoothen out our character. It is necessary to reform our way of acting. We have to change all things that make our responsibility false: pride, ambition, revenge, unforgivingness, etc. Those attitudes that make us gods in our world, which prevent us from seeing that we are not at all the owners of it. We are miniscule in the extensive history of Humanity.
John's disciples experienced the purification of their errors. We, Jesus' disciples, can live the insuperable experience of purification from all our sins, with the hope eternal life: another Christmas!
Let's renew our dialog with him. Let's say our prayer of hope and love, without paying attention to the noisy world that surrounds us.
