Unconventional firmness
(Mt 7:6.12-14)
The Good News is Pearl (v.6). Gem that should not be dispensed to those who would use it only as a tool.
There are in fact those who maintain the ancient competitive, pagan mentality - sometimes even aiming to support their own conceptions of domination with beautiful manners [which sooner or later let the masks fall off]. Someone perhaps with the cover of the same Word of God, but without the leap of Faith.
It does not allow to overturn values.
There are many tricks that the opportunists of religion can put in place to attract the eye and exploit the naivety of the little ones - then turn against them.
The simple always have their hearts in hands, and spontaneously trust their neighbour.
Faced with old and new barkers, the sons of God often give to everything in gold value - but sometimes being plagiarized and exploited.
And we know the mechanisms of sects, which guarantee happiness, closing the adepts in mental cages.
The Lord does not promise us new life... only when we have finally dispelled our doubts, definitively solved problems, realized dreams and ambitions.
Christ does not wish to deprive sensitive souls to the point of expropriating them and not making aware, involving in useless battles.
The Father wants everyone to express their creative abilities, the different characters that inhabit - in which the personal deep son’s nature takes shape.
Traits all to be discovered. And that has its meaning with regard to Salvation.
Unfortunately, here and there come out very dangerous individuals and real agencies of manipulation, which alienate people.
We recognize them by now: in those who presume of themselves and are so swollen that them will never pass through a small door (vv.13-14) .
In this way they will never trace new roads. And unfortunately, they will do everything so that others do not explore them too.
Evaluation must be constantly exercised, lest the false saints [into whom as inexperienced people we risk falling] succeed in defiling our person and Calling.
So - as Pope Francis pointed out - «Lamb... with Christian cunning. Lamb, not fool».
As Pope Benedict said: «there is always the temptation to interpret religious practice as a source of privilege or security».
So, how to identify those who intend to dehumanize us, closing ourselves in obsessive comparisons - using us only for profit - everywhere offering themselves with apparently very high arguments?
On the basis of the 'past' or the 'future' [all of them], false guides force us to make war on ourselves - and criticize ourselves - instead of multiplying our energies and going on to explore other worlds.
Following external models is to throw our Pearl before the «swines» (v.6): to throw ourselves at the feet of those who - in order to steal our souls - have no respect, judge us, scold us, and devalue us.
While the little ones live in the present. Unconventional firmness.
[Tuesday 12th wk. in O.T. June 23, 2026]
