Gospel
text (Mc 2,13-17): When
Jesus went out again beside the lake, a crowd came to Him and He taught them.
As he walked along, he saw a tax collector sitting in his office. This was
Levi, the son of Alpheus. Jesus said to him, «Follow me». And Levi got up and
followed Him. And it so happened that while Jesus was eating in Levi's house,
tax collectors and sinners were sitting with Him and His disciples for there
were indeed many of them. But there were also teachers of the Law of the
Pharisees' party, among those who followed Jesus, and when they saw Him eating
with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, «Why! He eats with
tax collectors and sinners!». Jesus heard them and answered, «Healthy people
don't need a doctor, but sick people do. I did not come to call the righteous
but sinners».
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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