IF YOU SO CHOOSE!
6 th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) February 16, 2014 IF YOU SO CHOOSE … It is hard to see the connection … Wisdom is not associated with rules and commandments. The Scribes and Pharisees were definitely learned people, by the standards in operation then. They were the equivalent of today’s illuminati, the few, the privileged and the titled. Who would not want to count among the then society’s elite? But today’s readings would have us look beyond titles and degrees: stuff that eyes do not readily see, nor ears so quickly hear about. Just look at what goes on repeatedly in our country. It pays to hover around higher circles, and to hobnob with people walking in the corridors of power. Big time thieves and crooks rubbing shoulders with “honorable” men and women in all three branches of government change colors from being plain thieves to being whistleblowers, to being heroes, all in a matter of a few years, or a few months, or even a few ...