FRIDAY SECOND WEEK LENT
Gn 37:3-28 Matt 21:33-43, 45-46
The Genesis account in the first reading today gives us a well-planned crime of Joseph’s brothers and their eventual sale of him. It occurred among brothers who shared the same blood of a father-Jacob. It was caused by jealousy in the family.
In the gospel reading, Jesus recounts by way of a parable the Jewish rejection of the prophets who came and ministered to them. Jesus reminds His listeners that He, too, is about to face exactly the same fate.
These scriptural texts make us wonder how such crime can happen to Joseph who loved his brothers and to the prophets and Jesus who unconditionally loved the Israelites their brothers.
Similar crimes also take place in our world today. Look at the causes of conflicts in our world; look at practices of injustice in our organizations, our communities. How often do we hold enmities toward our brothers and sisters until we can’t fraternally talk with to them and this because of selfish love and jealousy.
The second thing is that we have become so blind to see God’s messengers in our brothers and sisters; we have God’s messengers in our midst but, like the prophets sent by God, we often ignore them or reject them, we consider them impractical or out of date. Jesus is also very much in our midst but the question is do we always see Him or welcome Him? His presence in the Eucharist will only bring us life if we also recognize Him in our brothers and sisters and especially in the poor and rejected of our society.
This holy season of Lent Jesus calls us to repent and make an effort to reconcile with our brothers and sisters and live with one another as guardian angel to each other.
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