Gospel: Luke
11:42-46
(Jesus said) “Woe to you
Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint and of rue and of every garden herb, but you
pay no attention to judgment and to love for God. These you should have done,
without overlooking the others. Woe to you Pharisees! You love the seat of
honor in synagogues and greetings in marketplaces. Woe to you! You are like
unseen graves over which people unknowingly walk.”
Then one of the scholars of
the law said to him in reply, “Teacher, by saying this you are insulting us
too.” And he said, “Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people
burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch
them.”
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Reflection:
Where
does this anger of Jesus toward the Pharisees and the scholars of the law comes
from? It originates from their hypocrisy, they are only good at creating laws
for their people to follow yet they don’t follow it themselves.
They make
their self-created laws as an instrument to beguile and eventually enslave
their people. Therefore, instead of introducing God to their people they
eventually introduce themselves as Gods to their people.
Their
style of leadership is leadership by deception and many of our Politicians has
this kind of leadership. They pretend and project themselves to be leaders of
the poor/masses and their only hope to conquer poverty. But they have
the stomach to corrupt the money that is for the poor, how could they do this
to the masses that they are supposed to truthfully serve?
Politicians
are not alone in this kind of pharisaic mentality we too are often times guilty
of this mentality. We tell others or even our children not to do this and that
yet when nobody is watching anymore we are the main violators of the rules that
we create.
The truth
hurts but this is the truth we have to accept this and hopefully make this as
our springboard to live our lives according to the teachings of Jesus and not
according to the false and self-serving teachings of the Pharisees and the
scholars of the law. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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