Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Who among the people of the worlds is there who is not happy to know he/she will be "called great in the kingdom of heaven" (Mt 5:19b).  How many of this mass of humanity are daily aware of the membership fee to gain entrandce to this kingdom?  You can provide the response to this question.

In the first part of the same Matthean verse, Jesus tells us what the admission standards is:  "whoever does and teaches them."  And what are the "them: that those whowant in have to do and teach?  One word answer:  the Commandments.

Relkigious practice in daily life has to be a living out of the Commandments.  This is what Jesus is teaching the crowd during this part of the Sermonon the Mount.  A read of the entire 5th chapter of the Matthean gospel would surely be a worthwile investment of 5 - 10 minutes.

Ours is a duty both to live  and to teach the Commandments.  How oftendo you remember this by trying to teach others, especially within our families, the message and value in the Commandments.