“ Blessed are the merciful shall obtain mercy “ (Matthew 5, 7).

The Beatitudes proclaimed by Jesus in the sermon on the mount, are a summary, or better yet, a life program, a provision for those who want to be his disciple; and the gateway to enter the Kingdom of heaven. Is very rich each of the Beatitudes!

Today, I want to stop on two of them, very important to the context we live in the Year of mercy. The first of these: “blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied”. We can’t lose our hunger or thirst for Justice, because the world in which we live is quite unfair.

We don’t have to be angry, but neither can we be conciliatory. So, Holy indignation must be within our heart. We can’t settle for the injustices in the world, of all orders and ways;the most painful of them are the “social injustices”.

The world allows people to starve, to live in squalor and poverty. In the world in which there is land, houses and food for all, there are millions of people living in absolute poverty and misery. Whether in Brazil or the world we live in, we can’t be people with their arms crossed.

We think: “Wow, but God has been so good to me! He blessed me and granted me everything! “And to another, for he who has nothing, God was not God good for him? Did He forget him?

We can’t use religion, our faith, to justify our prosperity and, simply, we go along with the poverty and misery that often plague the heart of another.

In the world there are wrongs on all sides and we cannot by any means be complicit or close our eyes. Sometimes, the injustices happen ahead of us: we see one passing by another, giving nothing or faced with the situation of a person is betraying the each other.

We can’t settle for any injustice. Our heart needs to die hungry, hungry for Justice to happen every time. We don’t need to be vigilantes or take the law into their own hands, but our hearts cannot be silent in the face of any wrongdoing.

“ Blessed are the merciful they shall obtain mercy “. Justice comes along with mercy. We want justice in every way, but we must have a merciful heart, who pities the misery of the human heart.

We don’t need to throw stones at anybody or we can close our eyes in the face of evil that often happens in our view.

God bless you!