Gospel
text (Mathew 23,23-26): Jesus
said, «Woe to you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You do
not forget the mint, anise and cumin seeds when you pay the tenth of
everything, but then you forget what is most fundamental in the Law: justice,
mercy and faith. These you must practice, without neglecting the others. Blind
guides! You strain out a mosquito, but swallow a camel. Woe to you, teachers of
the Law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You fill the plate and the cup with
theft and violence, and then pronounce a blessing over them. Blind Pharisee!
Purify the inside first, then the outside too will be purified».
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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