International Catholic Conference of
Guiding
Reconciliation - Luke 11, 47-54
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[Matthew 5-20-26][
Luke 10, 38-42][
Luke 11, 5-13][
Luke 11, 15-26]
[ Luke 11, 27-28][
Luke 17, 11-19][
Luke 11, 42-46][
Luke 11, 47-54]
Luke 11, 47-54
Jesus said to the teachers of the Law: « How terrible for you! You make fine tombs for the prophets - the very prophets your ancestors have murdered. You yourselves admit then, that you approve of what your ancestors did; they murdered the prophets, and you built their tombs.
For this reason the Wisdom of God said, `I will send them prophets and messengers; they will kill some of them and persecute others'. So the people of this time will be punished for the murder of all the profets killed since the creation of the world, from the murder of Abel to the murder of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the Holy Place. Yes, I tell you, the people of this time will be punished from them all!
How terrible for you teachers of the Law! You have kept the key that opens the door to the house of knowledge; youyourselves will not go in, and you stop those who are trying to go in! »
When Jesus left that place, the teacher of the Law and the Pharisees began to criticize him bitterly and ask him questions about many things, trying to lay traps for him and catch him saying something wrong.
| Meditation |
by Jean Debruynne |
We are at the heart of the conflict between religion and
faith.
Everything begins with faith and finishes with religion.
Jesus never ceased all along the Gospels to denounce this sort of locking
oneself into religion.
It is said that Jesus wanted to kill religion, butin fact it is religion that
killed him.
All of us are teachers of the Law.
There is a key sentence in the text we have just examined which should give us
food for thought.
Jesus says: « How terrible for you teachers of the Law! You have kept the
key that opens the door to the house of knowledge; you yourselves will not go
in, and you stop those who are trying to go in! »
It requires a constant conversion to be able to act in such
a way that what we have learned could never be reduced to an instrument of
power, that walls could not be not constructed there where doors should be,
prisons where roads are meant to be.
When an organisations strats to organise, it is tempted to take over power, to
put truth in an annex, to exclude all that is not like itself.
The conflict between religion and faith is not other than
the conflict between those setting up an establishment and those living under it,
the work of a prophet and that of a king.
The issue is not to exclude kings or bosses, as we need both prophets and kings.
But there is a risk of comming to a halt the day in wich kings see themselves as
prophets and prophets pretend to be kings. Our aim is that both movements be
present in the ICCG, it is necessary for us that we should be at the same time
those who saw, and those who labour, those who water and those who gather and
harvest, those who propose and those who organiwe, those who invent and those
who provide a structure for it.
If the profet speaks into the wind, the wind will blow it away and his words will be lost in the desert.
Those who establish, organise and structure and have no other mission will just organise an organisation and will not further the kingdom of God.
If we want the prophet to be a prophet, his word must be welcomed by a group, a community that will give birth to a people.
Prophets are always bound to disappear in order to leave a place for kings and kings are bound to disappear in order that new prophets can come to saw for new seasons.
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