July 6, 2025.
“Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.” (Luke 10, 3-4)
To be lambs amongst wolves. It is one of the greatest challenges for Christianity. This is how Jesus ordered his disciples and how they behaved after having seen Jesus do so. However, at other times, the Maestro encourages us to be cunning as snakes as well as simple as doves.
Both things may be united through love. Sometimes, to love will make us “sheep”, that is to say, it will force us to take on the dirty play that others use, although this may cause us momentary harm. But at other times, Love will take us to be cunning and courageous, with the purpose of defending, always by legal and peaceful means, the rights of the poor, the innocent, the Church. The astuteness which we Christians must use goes against the innocence. Our intelligence is not allied with evil. There are limits which a Christian must not pass, but until we reach those limits there is a lot of room to play and many legitimate jeans to use.
Unfortunately, what happens to us is that our laziness or fear holds us back and we excuse ourselves by saying that the children of darkness are smarter than those of the light, as if the fact. Which we can’t use bad jeans condemns us to being stupid. This is not true; it is our incompetence which makes us stupid and not the rejection of illicit means. The end does not justify the means, but if we use the means that we are capable of we will get further in the defense of justice and truth.
Intention: Reject all the means which go against the law of God but use all others for the service of good and of evangelization.