LOVE IN TIME OF HATE LOVE IN TIME OF HATE
Dearest comrades s @ s control:
About the February 14, "day of love and friendship," but we know that is a "celebration" of dubious origin and objectives, I send you all a big hug to try to be of true love, and today implies solidarity, struggle and commitment for the New Mexico and true and new institutions, free and democratic ... And again I will share with the reflection that I did last year for this day of "love" and that a year away, still in full force ...
LOVE IN TIME OF HATE
A prominent PAN Hidalgo, very Catholic, a few days ago I was denied a rental space for the University of the Fourth Republic to support the Movement for my Family and friends Lopez Obrador ... very close to not talk to me since I was in the camp outside the base ... The "government" usurper called for reconciliation, peace and "love" while tapping, repress and torture ... AMLO's opponents, media rich and powerful, the very "government", even people who say they left, they follow attacking wildly as if he were the winner of the race and not the "defeated" ... Some who call themselves "López Obrador," and against the explicit request of Lopez Obrador himself, I was a direct witness, "occur within the metropolitan cathedral against Cardinal Rivera for their support on the right ... Is it impossible to "love" or at least the "good manners" in a more divided Mexico? ...
On Sunday, an echo at February 14, "day of love and friendship" be read in all Catholic churches in Mexico, the Gospel Acclamation: " I give you a new commandment, says the Lord, who love one another as I have loved " (Jn 13 , 34) ... How hear this "new commandment" of Calderón and the PAN Catholics? How did you hear the lopezobradoristas Catholics? "And how hear the millions of indifferent and" lukewarm "in Mexico that they are interested only in their personal affairs and do not have any kind of social or political consciousness ? ... And how do you explain this "new commandment" the little father PRI or the PAN or the PRD or López Obrador? ... We all hear and discuss circumventing the thorny issue? Or each person to interpret your taste and your way and at their convenience? Or talk of "love" as it does on TV, in a commercial sense, vulgar, trivial, with no real commitment? ...
Because later in the Gospel of that day, also read God's Word, as Word of the Son of God, as the word that has been there that Sunday , to listen and to respect and understand and obey: " Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless them that curse you and pray for those who mistreat you ... " (Luke 6.27-38) ... ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡!!!!!!!!!...
Would I, like many, have not you heard today, in current circumstances, these words. Believe me, I would better go back to Sunday where he heard with great joy in my heart and as a reinforcement of my commitment, " Blessed Blessed are you poor ... you who hunger now, they will be satisfied ... But woe to you rich ...! Woe to you who are fed up now because later will be hungry ... "(Lk 6,17.20-26) ... But as a believer and as a deacon, I have also heard this new word. Although it hurts, but tear. I remain confident that this word must also be Word of Truth, Justice and Freedom ... true
is very difficult to interpret and explain this "Love your enemies ". And yet, each of believers we have to, with full freedom and with full commitment ... If I were on Sunday in front of you, as a priest, deacon, I would say something like this after reading the Gospel:
The key to understanding the new commandment (" Love each other ") is what Jesus himself said a few lines later: " As I have loved " ... The "new commandment" is not The "Love" frivolous and pink and numbing TV presenting and marketing. No. This is a "love" genuine and committed as Jesus lived rather than spoke, and that gave life ...
says then today the word "Amen enemies." If the key is "like Jesus", then I must ask: Who were the enemies of Jesus and how he loved them? Well if I have the same enemies as had he would not be difficult to know how to obey the "new commandment" ... And it's clear: Jesus' enemies were the rich and powerful of his time, the Roman invaders, the then religious leaders, priests, scribes and Pharisees, and the "demons" ... How did Jesus love these "enemies"? "Eating and living with them? No! Poor eating and living with sinners and prostitutes ... Tolerating "kindly" abuses and injustices? No! He treated "harshly" and even got to use physical force to drive them out ... was only "kind" with "enemies" that corrected the path and repent! The love of Jesus was never complacent, or complicit, or silence, to evil and injustice of his "enemies" ... loved Jesus then how these "enemies"? Facing them! Fighting them! Attempting to correct their crooked ways! Denouncing their lies, hypocrisy and abuses! ... If your "enemies" today, in your own personal story of Jesus are the same: rich, powerful, usurpers, religious leaders, demons, and have heard today really the Word of God and not your own word convenenciera, know what you have to do to love them according to the Commandment of Love ... True
is harder to understand and obey the Word if your "enemies" are different from Jesus. Are the poor your enemies, these "nacos" troublemakers and "violent", those "crazy" "renegades" and "schizophrenic" who speak of fraud and theft, who hunger and thirst for righteousness? "Those who" have no task "and go on marches, sit-ins and demonstrations? "Those who disrupt your "peace" and your conscience bother asking equality, legality, democracy and freedom? ... The question you should ask yourself, if this is your case, is: How did Jesus love these "enemies" of mine, who were "friends" and people close to him? ... Do despised and persecuted and rejected as I do? ... I think you know the answer if you are a true Christian who has come this Sunday really listen to God and obey ... know well that all the kindness and tenderness and mercy of God then overflowed, and that is happening today, on the poor and the persecuted and slandered, and all who suffer any kind of oppression ...
But it is even harder to understand and obey the word, almost impossible, if you are now one of the "enemies" of Jesus, if are today one of those rich, powerful, religious leaders, "demons" do not want to correct the way, to repent, change his life and attitude, and start fighting, with Jesus and his followers, for Truth, Justice and True love ... So looking for a church and a daddy "like", so you can interpret the Gospel as him and you for them. Sunday not really looking for God. You're, like every week, you manage yourself and autoengañarte, with the blessing of a false god, to continue in error, lies and the destruction of yourself and others. You really hate God and everything he represents, and hate all those who carry and express the true God in their struggles and their facts ... You are one of my "enemies" more terrible and, as requested Word also today, pray for you that occur within you a miracle: your heart of stone, selfish and hard, becomes soft and generous heart able to love Mexico and to seek the good of all Mexicans, especially those who suffer most from injustice and exclusion today ...
Sunday's Gospel continues strumming and questioning anyone with a conscience and decides to hear: " Whoever hits you on one cheek, offer the other: the one who takes away your coat, let it be also the tunic. He who asks of you, and whoever takes your thing, do not ask ... " (Luke 6.27-38) ... Listen to this today? How is this word and how to allow it to be really Truth and Life in the circumstances prevailing in Mexico? ... For the supporters of "the Other" This will undoubtedly sound like a slap, as an aberration, as "opium for the people" ... At the "right" abusive and hypocritical will love to call convenencieramente text and in the name of God "to" peace "and" order "and the submissive silence about their fraud and abuses ...
But the millions we dream in New Mexico in a New Republic simply are these words true "Gospel"-that is, "Good News" - which confirms the path we have taken and the goals we have set: Our struggle must continue being on the paths of resistance and civil disobedience ... The text of the Gospel that we are reflecting means being ready to fight, love involves a "pink" or "cool blue", but a love so strong and committed ... and tears, pain and challenges it is not easy ... Easy selfish love or "pink." Also easy to hate ... Love resists fighting and peacefully, that love is of great people and true patriots. Love fighting and peacefully disobey when laws are unjust or institutions, that love is for heroes and saints ...
"turn the other cheek "has nothing to do with cowardly submission. When the Gospel of John speaks of Jesus receiving a blow, we see that 1) Do not hit back, 2) Also ran and ran, 3) Nor was meekly silent. Jesus confronted her batterer and said "If I have responded poorly, shows where the bad. But I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me? " (Jn 18,23) ...
Gandhi demonstrated with facts, with their own lives, with the results was obtaining the power of this true love fighting without hatred and violence, but also no escape, no turning back, without falling into submission or indifference, with a huge inner strength and conviction. peaceful civil resistance and civil disobedience are revolutionary, but they are also eminently evangelical and deeply spiritual ... and have nothing to do with any "religious" mocha, masochistic, submissive or cowardly ...
Peaceful Civil Disobedience , which is itself the stage today where millions we des-government against the illegal and illegitimate, is to be sustained and underpinned by words of truth and life as we heard on Sunday in an absolute love as befits New New Citizens in a New Republic: "The Lord will give each according to his righteousness " (1 Samuel 26.2 to 23, heard the first reading). In this Word we know that our victory is certain ...
civil disobedience is what Jesus did to the "laws" absurd and unfair time. That was his love for his country and the world at all times. This was the new spiritual law left us a legacy ... That is his violent civil disobedience was harassed by him, pursued him, seized him and killed him ... remember only a little: "How can you blaspheme in this way? Who can forgive sins but God alone? " (Lk 5.21) ... " Seeing this, the Pharisees and scribes who were his friends, expressed their discontent in the midst of the disciples of Jesus: ' How do you eat and drink with tax collectors and bad people? " (Lk 5.30) ... " The disciples of John fast often and say their prayers, and so do the disciples of Pharisees, while yours eat and drink " (Lk 5.33) ... " Why do they do what is not allowed to on the Sabbath? " (Lk 6.2) ... " The scribes and Pharisees watched him to see if it was a healing on the Sabbath and thus find reason to accuse " (Lk 6.7) ... "If this man were a prophet, would know that the woman who is playing is a sinner, known to the woman and what goes" (Lk 7.39) ... Etc., etc.., etc ... In each of these things they thought Jesus answered and said he always vigorously, wisdom and self authority. I put here only one of its responses is essential to understand their attitude free and Peaceful Civil Disobedience: "Saturday --laws has been made for man, not man for the Sabbath -laws-" (Mark 2.27) ... is, a law-and institution-if it is rational and fair, is to serve man, to free and make it better. Not for under the pretext and justification of the "law", abusing him, oppress or diminish ... Jesus was respectful of all wise and just law, religious or civil, which was in favor of men. But denounced and defied a lot of "rules" arbitrary, useless, irrational, hypocritical and unfair that only benefited a few, both in the field of civil and the religious ...
Your Love, New Love, was unbearable for those who lived and preached a "love" false, hypocritical and convenenciero ... To these representatives of "love" old and rotten it is for those particularly pronounced him the following words of the Gospel: "Be merciful ... Do not judge ... I do not condemn ... Sorry ... For with the measure that measure will be measured "(Luke 6.27-38) ... Did they heard that the rich and powerful, the religious leaders, the usurpers in Mexico, sold the media? Or have turned toward the village, towards which we are fighting, as if to say "in the name of God:" Here they speak. Put in order. Stay quiet. Forgive another six years our abuses and outrages. Have mercy on us that we are only a poor little rich. Do not be that apart from having no assets in this country also run out of the sky, eh? "...
Love today, in these days of fraud, cynicism and hatred, true love, the "sunshine yellow" and "blood red", has two names simple and clear: peaceful civil resistance and civil disobedience ... Is this the only hope ... It is the only remedy against hate background Structural economic, social, religious and political that has been growing in Mexico and the world in recent years ... The true believers, men and free women and spirituality in the New Republic, we know what we have to do and we will do ...
Álvaro, Deacon in Resistance