Called to be Contemplatives in Action
Jan 18, 2016 The liturgy of the day presents us with two sides of human life or living. One the one side we have the Pharisees – stressing on the externals rules and laws and traditions and on the other Jesus – speaking about the inner disposition that we need. When we go back to the book of Jeremiah 31, 31-34 , we read about a new law. When both the covenants – Conditional / Sinai covenant or the Unconditional / Davidic covenant were broken and the people were in the exile prophet Jeremiah comes with the promise of hope. He says God will make a new covenant/ bring about a new law and this law will be written on the hearts of the people. Mahathma Gandhi would say, “ Don’t listen to your friends, when the friend inside you says – “ Do This”. Pope Francis in his – Evangelii Gaudium – refer to Latin American theologians as they had brought about a revolution in their vicinity and places the same challenge before us saying – “ It’s