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wtorek, 16 sierpień 2011 21:18

Your Way (21B)

Skegness, 27th August 2006

 

One polish prisoner escaped from the camp in Siberia. He was struggling trough the taiga, in winter, a hard frost, his hands grew numb with a cold. After two weeks the food was finished. Exhausted, frozen, hungry, he was thinking: “It’s just the end”.
But on the horizon he saw the little house. He crawled towards this house and knocked the door. When the host opened the door, the poor escapee asked: “Sir! I’ve escaped from Siberia. Is it far to Poland?”
“O dear man!” - the house owner answered. "It’s not that direction!" 

Dear Brothers and Sisters!

Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem to say them: “Choose today your direction!” “Choose today whom you wish to serve!” 
And the people answered: “We have no intention of deserting the Lord. We will serve the Lord, for he is our God”. It is our direction.

After hearing Jesus, many of his followers said: "This is intolerable language. How could anyone accept it?" And many of his disciples went away and accompanied him no more. Then Jesus said to the Twelve: "What about you, do you want to go away too?". What about your direction? Where do you want to go?
Then Simon Peter answered: "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the message of eternal life".

Dear Friends.
We have been living for 10, 20, 40, 60 years.
We have heard about a lot directions.
We have seen a lot of ways.
Where are we going exactly?
Where are you going?
What is your direction?
It must be the greatest tragedy to say after 80 years: "O My God! I’ve wasted my life!"
Therefore Jesus asks today:
"What about you, do you want to go away?"
To go away from the right way? 

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piątek, 12 sierpień 2011 10:02

Way, duty and mercy (15C)

Leicester, 15th July 2007

 

Dear Brother and Sisters.
Let me say just three words. 

1. The first word is about way.
Why “a man was once on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho”?
Didn’t he know that this way was very dangerous?
Couldn’t he predict the consequences of that journey?
Why he decided to choose so unsafe path?
If you were in the Holy Land you know that there is no another way to go from Jerusalem to Jericho. There is no other possibility to get Jerusalem from Jericho. If that man lived in Jericho he had to go to Jerusalem and come back because it was impossible to be a true Jew and to not visit the Jerusalem temple at least once a year.
What does it mean for us?
Don’t complain about your life!
Don’t grumble: This way is very dangerous!
Don’t gripe: My Christian’s life costs me too much.
There are ways we should take if we want to be true Christians, even at any price. 

2. The second word is about duty.
Yesterday I was passing through the subway next to De Montfort University when I met a man who was begging. I was not the first person who was asked for money. He was not the first person begging who has received quite nothing from me. Just one smile and “God bless you”.
More than from the priest from today’s gospel. Less than from the Samaritan.
We can find a lot of excuses to justify our laziness but none of these justifications can help the people who are in need.
If Jesus has chosen priest and Levite to present his parable he wanted to say to all Christians: “Be attentive!”  It’s very easy to bypass the people if anyone seems to be closer to God. 

3. The last word is about mercy.
Since the Beginning of the Church the Saint Fathers saw in the Good Samaritan the figure of Jesus Christ. He is the one who sees the misery of the humankind, the humankind beaten by the sins and foolishness. He is the one who is treated by many people as a stranger and an enemy. Even though, Jesus Christ come to you and to me, because he was been moved with compassion seeing our troubles. He bandages our wounds with the love, pours oil of the Holy Spirit and wine of the Eucharist and he carries us to the church to tell to all of the world. “Look after him” “Look after the man who is poor, beaten and wounded. Look after the man who needs your help. I will repay you on my way back when I come at the end of the ages. Look after the man because I’m looking after you”. 

Just three words: way, duty and mercy.
I suppose it is not so difficult to understand the gospel even it was written in Greek and to understand the homily even it was said by a polish priest. The problem is the same as 2000 years ago:To be a man when you see a man...

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