25 October 2019
Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
In today’s gospel, Jesus highlights his contemporaries’ ability to predict the weather and contrasts it with their inability to judge and to do what is right.
Human beings have been predicting the weather for thousands of years. But in recent decades, the weather forecasts have gotten more accurate and more extended. We can predict what the weather will be like around the whole world 10 days in advance. Incredible!
If only we could make such admirable advances when it comes to the way we treat one another, by acting rightly and loving with our hearts, something that seems so simple. Yet even in the time of Jesus, complex institutions were in place to solve disputes and ensure justice. I daresay the quarreling and the structures to help resolve such issues has only gotten more complex. It should not be that complicated, Jesus seems to suggest.
When it comes to human relationships, it’s up to us to make the forecast one of justice, love and charity.