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Moment of Reflection
"THE DANGER OF LIKENESS ..."
Today's world demands MEN OF GOD ...
We have to be men and women for whom GOD IS A REALITY, not a SIMPLE idea.
Often judge ourselves filled with a prophetic mission,
But what in fact is we want to express our criteria.
The drama to an evangelist,
is to confuse the simple insertion resemblance to the real
requiring particular interdependence and solidarity that can live up even without similarity.
The want to be equal to men in all this world,
is a trap for those who want to put up.
Bear in mind the comparisons that Jesus uses in the field of apostolate:
leaven in the dough, salt of the earth, the light in the darkness, where is the similarity?
The yeast in the dough mix is similar but not the mass,
if it were, could never perform its function.
However if the mass is discarded,
yeast vai also to the dustbin because it is inseparable from the mass:
is supportive of her.
For the apostle, for the Christian, for the evangelist,
MAIN OBJECTIVE is to get deep solidarity!
On behalf of the Gospel, we must accept the dissimilarity!
Who was closer to Jesus than men?
He became like us in all things except sin,
what was sufficed to make the diferentíssimo us and it is for this same reason that we receive from Him everything.
It is therefore VITAL that to insert ourselves in the midst of men,
accept the dissimilarities. There are always times when men offer us difficult choices.
Often we refuse to know.
This was the case of a Little Brother of Jesus, a factory worker,
he felt that his companions told him to trigger a strike and refused to adhere to it.
This was the case for the Jesus who said "we want you to be our King"
and withdrew to the mountains to pray.
There is a radical choice that must be made:
why in inserting among men?
To make policy? Or in the name of Jesus? "
(Jacques Loew)
Dear Brothers: How many priests, how zealous laymen,
wanting to convert, environments or people to Jesus,
not taking into account that it takes, on behalf of the Gospel, accept the dissimilarity,
fell on similarity, losing themselves!
+ The Blessing of God Almighty, Father, Son and Holy Spirit descend upon you and remain forever. Amen.