; SIXTH SUNDAY CYCLE TO A.
" You heard it said, but I say " (Mt 5, 17-37).
continue watching the image of Jesus on the mountain and learn from him as the first disciples. Six times he repeated: " you have heard it said but I say" ... Have not we tried to neutralize the explosive force of " But I say ..." ? The first disciples, who were Jewish, were puzzled to Jesus and asked: What could they do now without the safety that gave the law enforcement?
Jesus gives the answer: " not think I've come to abolish the Law or the Prophets ... I have come to give fullness " What do these words mean? Mean that Jesus came to discover the deeper meaning of the Act ..
Jesus comes into this world to give every man a radical transformation path and consent to enter that way, is to enter "the kingdom of God", which is the Kingdom of Love (love is not a standard, but a way to live life human revealed in Jesus.)
Jesus, now, is in the realm of practical and highlights the attitudes that help us live as true disciples.
First, Jesus refers to violence in our relationships :
" have heard that the ancients were told," Do not kill "but I say that everyone who is angry ..." We are at the first situation that man has to face and overcome: the difficulties and conflicts in human relationships, often full of aggression and violence to the physical but also psychological. Violence does not only belong exclusively to terrorist or murderer ... may also be in us when we get carried away by the aggressiveness and violence against those who disagree with us or that frustrate our needs. There are more ways to kill sutiles... el insulto, la descalificación, la indiferencia, van matando poco a poco a las personas.
Jesús también nos invita a la reconciliación : " Si cuando vas a poner tu ofrenda sobre el altar, te acuerdas allí mismo de que tu hermano tiene quejas contra ti, deja allí tu ofrenda en el altar y vete primero a reconciliarte con tu hermano". Jesús, buen conocedor del corazón humano, garantiza la calidad de nuestras relaciones a través de la reconciliación y el perdón. La reconciliación es una necesidad humana, un elemento constitutivo de nuestras relaciones with others. For reconciliation and forgiveness recover the broken relationship, lost friendship, love, disappointment, injustice, hatred and ill, reconciliation and forgiveness heal.
Today's Gospel reminds us that we need to get rid of everything that leads us to destroy the other or away from us and makes another fraternity. Is an inconsistency condemn the violent deaths and stir while among us excessive aggressiveness. We can get very aggressive in the heart, so we use a hard and unforgiving language. Why is so widespread this language, insults and slander fact, in our culture today?
Then Jesus an invitation to overcome the dominance of men over women in the sector relations sex: " you have heard it said not commit adultery, but I tell you who looks at a woman lustfully" . The male-female relationships is a situation in which Jesus invites us to overcome the Law The "wish " in the verb Hebrew, meaning "seize violently " of what one does not belong, that is, appropriating the other and relationship. Jesus breaks the patriarchal and sexist when a woman is man's property and reduced to an object. Thus, Jesus emphasizes the responsibility of man to the woman as "lust," the man was not considered serious.
then adds: " If your eye causes you to sin pluck it out, if your hand causes you to sin ..." here, you know, the "eye" symbolizes the desire , and hand the action , it means that there is just being led by the instinctual drives that destroy human relationships.
Jesus restores dignity to women when he says: " who divorces his wife ..." At that time, patriarchal culture and the divorce was an injustice against women, was enough to dismiss any proof. They were not entitled. The old law divorce in circumstances justifying the banal. " But I say, anyone who divorces his wife ... " Yes, Jesus restores the dignity of women and invites a total commitment to another, without reservation, without selfishness. In short, Jesus is inviting a loyalty and a shining example of the very love of God.
In a world so dehumanizing as the one we live in, these words of Jesus can be uncomfortable and, in fact, seem to go against the personal and freedom of man and woman, as now interpreted. But what Jesus meant, in short, is that male-female relations are lived in a free and fully satisfactory. Our society needs men and women who testify that it is possible loving "forever" and at the same time, have the understanding and support for those who can not live.
Finally, Jesus emphasizes the importance of truth and authenticity in our relationships " you have heard it told old: Do not swear falsely ... But I say: do not swear at all ... To you enough to say "yes" or "no". means that relationships often are infected by lies, the ambiguity of words, double meanings and falsehood. Jesus calls us to live a human relations based on truth and sincerity of heart. Our word has to be sufficient by itself: " I just say" yes "or" no ".
; In today's Gospel, Jesus proposes to overcome the scale of values \u200b\u200bthat governs our society and invites us to love without measure, as He loves us as God loves us.
In this celebration, we turn to the Lord, in prayer, and say, "Lord, you want to be free, free to love and give us a law inscribed in our hearts."
Benjamin Garcia Soriano
February 13, 2011
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