Wednesday, September 18, 2002
24th Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: 1 Cor 12:31-13:13
Gospel: Lk 7:31-35
Jesus said, "What comparison can I use for this people? What are
they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace, about whom
their companions complain: 'We piped you a tune and you wouldn't dance;
we sang funeral songs and you wouldn't cry.'
Remember John: he didn't eat bread or drink wine, and you said: 'He has
an evil spirit.' Next came the Son of Man, eating and drinking, and you
say: 'Look, a glutton for food and wine, a friend of tax collectors and
sinners.' But the children of Wisdom always recognize her work."
Commentary
Nothing can move cynical people unless they remove the blindness which prevents them from seeing reality. One will always find a reason to disbelieve what one experiences. Jesus was showing the sign of the coming of God's reign, which John himself proclaimed. Nonetheless, they always had the reasons not to believe. The Gospel today challenges us to be mindful of our blindness, through which prism we might have a biased perception of people and events. Only through such mindfulness and acceptance of such a mind-state will we be able to transcend biases.