Gospel
text (Mathew 9,9-13): As
Jesus moved on from there, He saw a man named Matthew at his seat in the
custom-house, and he said to him, «Follow me». And Matthew got up and followed
him. Now it happened, while Jesus was at table in Matthew's house, many tax
collectors and other sinners joined Jesus and his disciples. When the Pharisees
saw this they said to his disciples, «Why is it that your master eats with those
sinners and tax collectors?». When Jesus heard this he said, «Healthy people do
not need a doctor, but sick people do. Go and find out what this means: ‘What I
want is mercy, not sacrifice’. 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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