Monday of week 21 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Matthew 23:13-22
“You who shut up the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces, neither going in yourselves nor allowing others to go in who want to”. This is what happens when one cannot love. When we cannot love we close doors to others. And also, we close doors to ourselves. Door to where? The door to enjoy the love of God. The door to heaven. The door to enjoy the divine providence. Because when we are not loving others genuinely, we are closing ourselves inside our ego. We are closing ourselves inside ourselves. When we are closed ourselves inside ourselves, we can never be a path of love. We can never become a path towards the love of God. We can never become a path to heaven. This is what Jesus is saying to us in the Gospel of the day. He calls, “blind guides”. We are blind and we pretend to be guides. The moment, we cannot love, we become blind. Then don’t pretend to be guides. Love first and then guide, because when you can love, love becomes the path, and each act of love becomes the guide. Let’s reflect: Do I love genuinely so that I can guide others to the love of God?
Don Giorgio