Gospel
text (Lc 18,9-14):
Jesus told another parable to some persons fully convinced of their own
righteousness, who looked down on others: «Two men went up to the Temple to
pray; one was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by
himself and said: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not like other people,
grasping, crooked, adulterous, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a
week and give the tenth of all my income to the Temple’. In the meantime the
tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but
beat his breast saying: ‘O God, be merciful to me, a sinner’. I tell you, when
this man went down to his house, he had been set right with God, but not the
other. For whoever makes himself out to be great will be humbled, and whoever
humbles himself will be raised».
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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