Saturday, March 12
Year A - Season of Lent - Salt IV.
Color Purple Lit-Abstinence (and fast)
S. Luigi Orione - S. Innocent
Is 58, 9-14, Ps 85, Lk 5: 27-32
me, Lord, in your way
+ Lk 5: 27-32
After this he went out and saw a publican named Levi, sitting at the tax office, and said, "Follow me. He left everything, got up and followed him. Then Levi made him a great feast in his house. There was a large crowd of tax collectors and other people who were with them at the table. The Pharisees and their scribes murmured, saying to his disciples: "Why did you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?". Jesus replied: "I'm not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick, and I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to conversion."
COMMENT
The calling of Matthew
The call of Levi-Matthew shows us a meeting between Jesus and the tax collector, and a conversion, so that the sinner becomes a disciple. Listen to the call, leave everything and follow Jesus, open their home to a feast of reconciliation and probably host of others. We are also reminded of the story of Zacchaeus, also in the Gospel of Luke, the Gospel of mercy and forgiveness.
In both cases Jesus "sees" the sinner, I met his gaze and spoke to him: it is the Lord who goes in search of lost sheep, which speaks to him and break the wall of hostility and rejection around him (Levi and Zacchaeus are considered unclean, too commingled the money and the Roman oppressors uncircumcised).
In both cases, Jesus responds to criticism of the Pharisees professed his mission call, look for what was lost, the sinners. should not discourage us for our sins, but look "gaze" and the "word" of Jesus who saves us and takes us back to our being more true to the similarity with the Father.
PVBoschetto
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