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! The Pharisees and the
scholars of the law are only good on 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. 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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