Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: MATTHEW 20:1-16

Quality of God is very well expressed in this parable. Human beings are limited and they think in human terms. They speak in terms of justice, cause and effect, rights and duties, equality etc. Because, these human qualities are not present in all men equally. It varies from person to person and this causes jealousy and envy.

God instead works on his qualities of love, generosity, truth, giving gifts, making covenants with people and giving promises to the people and fulfilling them. God’s love and generosity go beyond the justice and equality that men see. In fact they include the good qualities of men and go beyond it (My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? ).

மனிதன் நீதி> உரிமை> கடமை போன்றவைகளை வைத்து வாழ்க்கையை நடத்துகிறான். ஆனால் கடவுள் அன்பு> தாராளம்> உண்மை> உடன்படிக்கை> வாக்குறுதி போள்றவைகளை வைத்து உலகை நடத்துகிறார். கடவுளின் குணங்கள் மனித குணங்களை உள்ளடக்கும் மேலும் அதைத்தாண்டியும் செல்லும்.

GOSPEL READING: MATTHEW 19:16-22

God is the only one who is good. No one on earth is good. All what God has created was good. God has shared his goodness with all his creatures. However the created things are not completely good. They have their limitations. They have their shades of evil in them (Rom 7:23 but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members).

Man who is caught up between good and evil lacks only one thing. Perfection comes only through selling all the wealth and shares them with the poor. Man who is good and bad becomes perfect (completely good) only through sharing the wealth with the poor. Association with the poor is the way to perfection and this should be followed by becoming the disciple of Jesus.

மனிதன் நிறைவுள்ளவனாவதற்கும் அல்லது நல்லவனாவதற்கும் ஒரே ஒரு வழிதான் உண்டு. ஏழைகளோடு தன் உடைமையை பகிர்ந்து கொள்வதன்வழியாகத்தான்.