{"id":17725,"date":"2016-09-06T01:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T06:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=17725"},"modified":"2016-07-17T19:59:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T00:59:43","slug":"that-our-hearts-do-not-keep-quiet-in-the-face-of-the-injustices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2016\/09\/06\/that-our-hearts-do-not-keep-quiet-in-the-face-of-the-injustices\/","title":{"rendered":"That our hearts do not keep quiet in the face of the injustices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>We don’t need to be vigilantes or take the law into their own hands, but our hearts cannot be silent\u00a0before injustice<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/hgroup>\n
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“<\/em> <\/span>Blessed are the merciful shall obtain mercy “<\/em> <\/span>(Matthew 5, 7).<\/span><\/p>\n

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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; <\/span>and the gateway to enter the Kingdom of heaven. <\/span>Is very rich each of the Beatitudes!<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, I want to stop on two of them, very important to the context we live in the Year of mercy. <\/span>The first of these: “<\/strong>blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied”<\/strong>. <\/span>We can’t lose our hunger or thirst for Justice, because the world in which we live is\u00a0quite\u00a0unfair.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

We think: “Wow, but God has been so good to me! <\/span>He blessed me and granted me everything! “And to\u00a0<\/span>another, for he who has nothing, God was not God good for him? <\/span>Did He forget him?<\/span><\/p>\n

We can’t use religion, our faith, to justify our prosperity and, simply, we go along\u00a0with the poverty and misery that often plague the heart of another.<\/p>\n

In the world there are wrongs on all sides and we cannot by any means be complicit\u00a0or close our eyes. <\/span>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\u00a0each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can’t settle for any injustice. <\/span>Our heart needs to die hungry, hungry for Justice to happen every time. <\/span>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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

We don’t need to throw stones at anybody or we can close our eyes in the face of evil that often happens in\u00a0our view.<\/p>\n

God bless you!<\/p>\n

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