Gospel
text (Matthew 25,1-13):
Jesus said to his disciples, «This story throws light on what will happen in
the kingdom of heaven. Ten bridesmaids went out with their lamps to meet the
bridegroom. Five of them were careless while the others were sensible. The
careless bridesmaids took their lamps as they were and did not bring extra oil.
But those who were sensible, brought with their lamps flasks of oil. As the bridegroom
delayed, they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. But at midnight, a cry rang out:
‘The bridegroom is here, come out and meet him!’ All the maidens woke up at
once and trimmed their lamps. Then the careless ones said to the sensible ones:
‘Give us some oil, for our lamps are going out’. The sensible ones answered:
‘There may not be enough for both you and us. You had better go to those who
sell and buy for yourselves’. They were out buying oil when the bridegroom
came, and those who were ready went with him to the wed-ding feast, and the
doors were shut. Later the rest of the bridesmaids arrived and called out:
‘Lord, Lord, open to us’. But he answered: ‘Truly, I do not know you’. So, stay
awake, for you do not know the day nor the hour».
Our God is all love and truth, who asks from us humility and forgiveness. Our God is the only living God. He has the word of eternal life. Observing the process of the current protests in the Middle East and many other places in the world by the so called followers of Islam, presumably outraged because they do not like what is being presented in a film about their prophet; it is interesting to distinguish that factual truth, about what is missing in the whole staging of these protests and it is precisely, truth, love, humility and forgiveness and it is not precisely from the ignorant mobs perpetrating the assaults under the direction of their evil leaders, but from the ones supposedly protecting the basic and fundamental freedoms we all in the western civilization which is founded in Christianity, have for granted.
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