Today
Jesus is asking us to look up and watch the skies. Sometimes,
with the help of highly educated weather-persons, it is easier to interpret
what goes on there. We can “read the weather” like a book or a Google-map! But,
on the other hand, we find it more difficult to understand the changing times
in which we live: “You understand the
signs of the earth and the sky, but you don’t understand the present times.”
Many listening to Jesus himself could not identify him as the Son of God. They
did not know the time, the hour of salvation. It was right there!
The Second Vatican Council Constitution
“Gaudium et Spes” (On Joy and Hope)
can be applied to today’s Gospel: “In
every age, the church carries the responsibility of reading the signs of the
times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel… We must be aware of
and understand the aspirations, the yearnings, and the often dramatic features
of the world in which we live.”
When we are making history, it
is not too difficult to point out the occasions lost by the Church for not
having discovered the time in which we are living. But, Lord, what occasions
are we perhaps wasting now for not being able to read the signs of the times,
and not being able to throw light upon today’s problems with the light shed by
the Gospel? Today, Jesus reminds us once more “And why do you knot judge for yourselves what is fit?”
We are not living in a world
of wickedness, though there may be plenty of it. But God has not forsaken his
world. As St. John of the Cross reminds us, we live in a world, which the very
God treaded on and made beautiful. Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta saw the
signs of the times, and the times have understood Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
Let her invigorate us. Let us keep on looking upwards without losing sight of
our earth.
“And
why do you not judge for yourselves what is fit?”
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