16 “To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:
17 “‘We played the pipe for you,
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge,
and you did not mourn.’
18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”
How often are we like these obstinate children who opposed every opportunity to cooperate, or like those who could see no good in anyone? We can easily slip into this skepticism or stubbornness as we are surrounded by it on all sides. Yet it need not be so. Today we celebrate St. lucy, whose name means "light" in the midst of "Dark December" when daylight gets shorter and shorter and darkness comes earlier and earlier. She stood up for her faith and by God's grace survived some of the attempts on her life. Eventually she was beheaded but leaves an example of steadfastness in the Faith; her light shines brightly in today's ever-increasingly faithless and materialistic society. May we not join the gang of obstinate children, but walk in the light with St. Lucy.
Bro. Rene
Dear God, deliver me from the tendency to 'have it my way" and help me respond with all my energy to the call to walk in the light. Amen.
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