GOSPEL THOUGHTS
17th Week – Thursday
Gospel – Matthew 13: 47-53
*We
need to sit down to separate what is good and what is Evil*
*The unexamined life is not worth
living*
*1)
Unhealthy speed of Growth*
Today we are having unimaginable speed of growth of the various
things
From 2G to 3G, 4G 5G and in near future we may have 6G 7G 8G
From Duel core processor, we have moved to I3, I5, I7,
From 1GB Ram to 2GB 4GB 6GB 8GB 16GB
From 80GB, to 12OGB 500GB 1000GB
From single storey building to 100 storey building
From Thousands to lakhs, cores and millions
All these above few examples show us the speed of growth in
various fields. All these changes are happening in the span of 25 or 35
years
*2)
Unhealthy speed of some aspects of Human life*
The above unhealthy speed of growth has caused some
unhealthy growth in Human life. Some of the examples
Human being have become more selfish
Unhealthy competition to amass weath and money
Big financial scams and scandals are on rise
Degraded moral life and value system
The lesser value of Human life
Self centered and indifferent way of life
Materialist outlook of life
Increased greed for wealth, power, authority, money and
possessions
All these are on rise and they are increasing in an unhealthy
speed
*3)
Unhealthy Speed of growth and Busy way of life*
The above speed of growth in the material world and also in
human life has made us our life 'Busy' in every aspect of our life
Today we are so busy running from piller to the post, we have no
time to sit and relax
We have 101 things to do, as a result we too are running all the
time and we get exhausted with in no time
When life becomes so busy we have no time to reflect about what
is going on in our life.
*The unexamined life is not worth Living*
- Socrates
*4)The
need of Sitting down*
In order to evaluate our life, we need to reflect. To reflect we
need to sit in solitude. To do this we need to slow down, we need to decrease
our speed
The Gospel of the day clearly tells us the need of sitting down
for segregating the good from the evil
The fishermen sat down and segregated good from the bad
ones
Unless they sit they could not separate the good from the bad
ones. So the need of sitting down is very much necessary to separate good from
the evil one.
*5)
Our life is like a fish net*
The fish net collects everything. It does not leave
anything.
Our life has all the qualities of a net. It is able to collect
all good things and bad as well
In other words we can say our life is influenced by good as well
as bad. So in order to find out what is good and what is evil we need to sit
and separate good from evil
*6)
Good is collected in buckets and bad is thrown out*
This is also very important. Unless we know something is bad we
will not throw it out.
At times because of our busy schedule we fail to evaluate what
is good and what is evil. In the bargain we throw good out and retain bad with
us
In such a situation, we ourselves are the losers and finally
only the bad remains with us
*7)Various
ways to segregate good from the Evil*
- Personal prayer life
- Examination of the -conscience
- Retreats and meditation on the word of God
- Spending time in silence
- Celebration of the sacraments
- Regularly receiving the sacrament of reconciliation
- Praying Rosary
- Evaluating ones own life, regularly
- Listening others and taking their suggestions
- Accepting the faults when others correct us
- Asking for an open evaluation from others
- Strong spiritual life
*8)
Unhealthy speed always causes accident and destruction*
So the need of slowing down and going at the healthy speed is
necessary.
Once the things are set right we can increase speed for some
time. Then once again we need to slow down to check the things and to put them
in order
*9)
COVID19 is a time to sit down and separate the good from evil*
Reflect about it and use this time to evaluate your own life
God
bless you and your family. Praying for you and your dear ones.
Fr Maxim D’Souza
Jeppu Seminary
Mangalore
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