Homilia Diária | Quarta-feira - 28ª Semana do Tempo Comum - (Lc 11,42-46) — Transcript

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1. 0:10Hello, my brother, my sister. Wednesday
2. 0:13of the 28th week, Ordinary Time. It is
3. 0:15a joy to be together for our daily
4. 0:18homily. Just before the homily, let me
5. 0:19extend an invitation to you. Next
6. 0:21Monday, the 19th, here at the Saint
7. 0:23Joseph Sanctuary in Alto Piquiri, the
8. 0:25Mass of the Impossible with Saint
9. 0:27Joseph. 6 AM, 7 PM, you are my guest,
10. 0:30okay? Also for our chapel pilgrimage,
11. 0:34our retreat, our retreat day after the
12. 0:366 AM Mass. I need to know which Mass
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19. 0:52any questions, and join us so we can
20. 0:54welcome you properly. Do not miss being
21. 0:58with us this coming Monday, the 19th,
22. 1:00for the Mass of the Impossible with
23. 1:02Saint Joseph here at the Saint Joseph
24. 1:04Sanctuary in Alto Piquiri, 6 AM, 7 PM,
25. 1:07but you need to register, okay? Right
26. 1:10there on the site on your screen. Let
27. 1:11us go to today's Gospel, for Wednesday
28. 1:13of the 28th week of Ordinary Time. The
29. 1:16Gospel is from Luke, chapter 11, verses
30. 1:1942 to 46, and it says: "At that time,
31. 1:22the Lord said: Woe to you, Pharisees,
32. 1:25because you pay tithes of mint, rue,
33. 1:27and all other herbs, but you neglect
34. 1:30justice and love. You should have
35. 1:34practiced these without neglecting the
36. 1:36others. Woe to you, Pharisees, because
37. 1:39you love the seat of honor in the
38. 1:40synagogues and being greeted in public
39. 1:42squares? Woe to you, because you are
40. 1:45like tombs that are not seen, over
41. 1:47which men walk without knowing." A
42. 1:50scholar of the law spoke up and said: "
43. 1:52Teacher," saying: "You insult us too."
44. 1:56Jesus replied: "Woe to you also,
45. 1:57scholars of the law, because you lay
46. 1:59unbearable burdens on men, and you
47. 2:01yourselves do not touch these burdens,
48. 2:03not even with one finger." The word of
49. 2:06salvation. Glory to you, O Lord. Woe to
50. 2:10you, Pharisee, scholar of the law, you
51. 2:13are hypocrites. Hypocrites and confused
52. 2:16, said Jesus. You pay tithes, including
53. 2:19on mint, rue, and other herbs, which
54. 2:21wasn't even part of the Mosaic law. So
55. 2:25they would tithe their income and these
56. 2:28things that weren't even part of their
57. 2:30annual crop harvest, they would tithe
58. 2:32those too. So when it came to tithing,
59. 2:35they were experts, weren't they? They
60. 2:39were attentive, meticulous, and
61. 2:41thorough, right? They even did more
62. 2:44than what was asked. But with that,
63. 2:48they became confused men, believing
64. 2:50that God was very pleased or that God
65. 2:53gets very angry when there is some
66. 2:55failure in that matter. And this is
67. 2:58very important for us, dear ones.
68. 3:00Sometimes we value and consider
69. 3:01fundamental that which for God is
70. 3:03relative. And we consider relative and
71. 3:06indifferent that which for God is
72. 3:07fundamental. And then Jesus said: "You
73. 3:10should practice, but you leave aside
74. 3:12justice and the love of God. You should
75. 3:16practice this without leaving aside
76. 3:18that. And in faith, it’s not about
77. 3:22this or that, it’s about both things,
78. 3:25but the most important thing is justice
79. 3:27and the love of God, to be just. And in
80. 3:31the Bible, justice includes charity,
81. 3:34fraternity, right? Justice and the love
82. 3:37of God. This you leave aside. It didn't
83. 3:39work out today. You know how it is?
84. 3:41It's complicated, but when the subject
85. 3:43is tithing, there was a very great
86. 3:45rigor. Even because, in their
87. 3:48understanding, the tithe was a way to
88. 3:51make God owe me money, right? So that
89. 3:54was why they were so thorough with that
90. 3:57, right? And we see in the world today,
91. 4:00even within our religion nowadays, in
92. 4:02today's Christianity, the
93. 4:04over-valuation, the hyper-valuation of
94. 4:06the money issue, the unhinged promises,
95. 4:08you know, that there are people I don't
96. 4:11know how they manage to promise certain
97. 4:13things to the people, right? These days
98. 4:17a video went viral of some very famous
99. 4:19people:" brothers who want to come and
100. 4:21sacrifice their own home, you will live
101. 4:23a miracle, you will. "You who come, you
102. 4:26who are offering your home, God will
103. 4:28honor you. Because I already received
104. 4:31this week a testimony from a sister who
105. 4:33came and donated her apartment to the
106. 4:35church and later said:" Pastor, that
107. 4:37thing I couldn't solve, in two days God
108. 4:39solved it. "You can see on the guy's
109. 4:42face that he's lying. It's a lie. There
110. 4:45is no such sister. This sister didn't
111. 4:47give an apartment and in two days had
112. 4:49an impossible issue in her life solved.
113. 4:51It's a lie. This person doesn't exist,
114. 4:54the person lies like that, oh, this
115. 4:56issue of money with religion, right?
116. 5:00Then Jesus continues saying the other
117. 5:01things, woe to you, Pharisees, because
118. 5:03you like the honor that religion brings
119. 5:05, right? In the squares, the seats. Woe
120. 5:08to you, because on the outside you look
121. 5:10beautiful, but on the inside you are
122. 5:12moldy bread, like a tomb, right?
123. 5:14Whitewashed sepulchers, right? that
124. 5:15they would drive over it, making it
125. 5:17look so nice that people wouldn't even
126. 5:18realize they were walking over a grave.
127. 5:20But inside it's a grave, meaning inside
128. 5:22they are full of stories, full of
129. 5:24crimes, full of things. But it's
130. 5:27impressive, anyway, regarding scams,
131. 5:29people fall for them if they want to,
132. 5:30right? We like things all wrapped up
133. 5:32nicely, don't we? It's easy, it's easy
134. 5:34to make people forget, it's easy to
135. 5:36hide, but God knows everything. Look
136. 5:39inside, I know who you are, right? And
137. 5:43then Jesus continues, because then a
138. 5:45teacher of the law said," Lord, but by
139. 5:47saying this, are you insulting us too?
140. 5:49"And Jesus answered him point-blank. Oh
141. 5:51, I'll even highlight this with my
142. 5:53Palmeiras green, still runner-up. Woe
143. 5:56to you also, teachers of the law,
144. 5:57because you place unbearable burdens on
145. 5:59men, but you yourselves do not touch
146. 6:01these burdens, you don't move these
147. 6:03burdens with even a finger. So look,
148. 6:06see the sins of the Pharisees and the
149. 6:08teachers of the law, right? The
150. 6:10teachers of the law had this role, to
151. 6:12take the law of Moses and interpret how
152. 6:14it should be practiced today. And Jesus
153. 6:16said that they interpreted it in this
154. 6:18way here, look. The interpretation you
155. 6:21give to the people, to the simpler
156. 6:23folks. What they have to practice in
157. 6:26faith are unbearable burdens, way too
158. 6:30heavy. You yourselves do not touch
159. 6:33these burdens. I know you don't do that
160. 6:35. So, sometimes they instilled in the
161. 6:38people the issue of tithing, fasting,
162. 6:40you know, so many precepts, they were
163. 6:42so rigorous with everything. And Jesus
164. 6:45said," But I know that in your personal
165. 6:47life, you are quite loose, broad, and
166. 6:49everything is fine, everything is okay,
167. 6:50right? "So, my dear ones, today's
168. 6:53gospel is here with the 'woes' from
169. 6:55Jesus. If we aren't careful, religion,
170. 6:59which could be a medicine for our
171. 7:01wounds, becomes makeup for our masks.
172. 7:05And we are very happy to feel distant,
173. 7:08different, and superior to people who
174. 7:10don't like these religious practices.
175. 7:15And so this means of healing, of
176. 7:17communion with God, of fraternity with
177. 7:20others, and of sanctification of our
178. 7:22character, this which is a means
179. 7:24becomes an end in itself. I simply know
180. 7:28that all this religious practice hasn't
181. 7:30changed me, but that's fine, because
182. 7:32then something else comes along, we
183. 7:34sometimes have a very infantile
184. 7:35religious view of God himself. Do you
185. 7:38imagine God, the almighty? Do you
186. 7:41imagine God who sent us Jesus? Now
187. 7:45imagine Jesus, read all the parts of
188. 7:48the Gospel calmly and tell me if he's
189. 7:51holding a scale weighing grams of rue
190. 7:54and mint. That is God. We can do better
191. 7:59, and we do this. We reduce God to this
192. 8:01. There's a fellow with a little scale
193. 8:04in his hand, or even a calendar marking
194. 8:07X's. How many Fridays of the year did I
195. 8:09forget it was Friday and eat red meat.
196. 8:13Not even your mother-in-law, as mean as
197. 8:14she may be, is this annoying. Sorry for
198. 8:16saying this, let alone God, but we can
199. 8:18diminish God and all the power of grace
200. 8:21and the Gospel into these little things
201. 8:23. Why? Because it gives us a feeling of
202. 8:26superiority, of power. So Jesus is here
203. 8:29speaking to those who, with these
204. 8:31little things, didn't care about God at
205. 8:33all, but were very interested in
206. 8:35feeling different from other people.
207. 8:38May God deliver us from such a great
208. 8:40error. And just before the final
209. 8:42blessing, you'll see images there,
210. 8:44right, of our 19th, this coming Monday.
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229. 9:19bless you in the name of the Father,
230. 9:20and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
231. 9:22Amen.