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Jesus encounters the sanctimonious ..

These are the days of the sanctimonious and the number is on an unusual increasing spree because new thoughts and ideas are rattling and shaking the world of orthodoxy and ritualistic rigours. It was almost a way of life in the days of Jesus because hardly challenging ideas were allowed to come in the thinking sphere of humanity. The sanctimonious people like the Pharisees almost brutally controlled and suppressed any thinking that would give people human dignity and human freedom. So Jesus called them whitewashed sepulchers that keep the rotten inside and pretend to be good outside. Jesus took on them head on. The sanctimonious insisted on the ritualistic prayers and fasting so that it becomes a good display of religiosity. Jesus has been observing this right from his childhood and how his parents were forced to abide by all that in ditto. So when his disciples asked him to teach them to pray, he took it as an opportunity to encounter the holier-than-thou class. “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them,… So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. ” (Matthew 6: 1- 2) Just before this his Sermon on the Mountain was a full-fledged encounter with the sanctimonious saying what you describe as the good people are not the good ones in the eyes of heavenly Father, rather “the poor in spirit”, “those who mourn”, “the meek”, “those who hunger and thirst for righteousness”, ‘the merciful”, “the peacemakers”, and “those who are persecuted for righteousness sake” (Matthew 5: 1 – 11). Pharisees described as good those who were scrupulous in ritualistic practices and giving exorbitant donations to the temple. But Jesus cynically dismissed them. He told them clearly that good people will not worship in this temple or that mountain but in truth and spirit, and it was his unequivocal answer to those who are bend upon building palatial places of worship mixing the cement and sand in the sighs and tears of the ordinary people and in the blood and sweat of the salves and other labourers. When the sanctimonious invoked the laws and traditions to justify their inhuman outlook and actions, he clearly told them with guts and gumption: “The Sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the Sabbath, so the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.” (Mark 2: 27 – 28) With one shot Jesus made human being above laws, rituals, customs and traditions and in fact, he made human being above religion and state, and made these two mere instruments to serve human beings. The conventional understanding is that these are above human beings, and Jesus turned the equation upside down like the theory of Copernicus that turned upside down the understanding that the sun moved from east west. What Jesus did in the human-scape or in the worldview of the humans was something of that sort. He restored to humankind the non-negotiable human dignity which nothing can dilute or diminish. Throughout the gospels we see Jesus had ushered in an encounter culture, and it was invariably with the sanctimonious religious class or the political one. Whether it was regarding going to the Samaritan regions, cleansing the lepers, healing the paralyzed on a Sabbath, paying tax to Caesar, or in front of Pilate regarding the political authority, or stoning a woman caught in adultery, Jesus made the sanctimonious completely exposed. When the woman caught in adultery was brought before him by the sanctimonious, he took them head on, and said let him throw the first stone who has not sinned. The sanctimonious had no defense and their stones automatically dropped. But through all these encounters, Jesus restored to humanity the image of God which pharisaic attitude had completely blotted out. That is why Pope Francis says we must develop an encounter culture to restore human dignity: “We are accustomed to a culture of indifference and we must strive and ask for the grace to create a culture of encounter, of a fruitful encounter, of an encounter that restores to each person his or her own dignity as a child of God, the dignity of a living person.” Only an encounter will keep the sanctimonious in their place, otherwise, they will destroy our human dignity and freedom in the name of religion, custom or system. So, beware of the sanctimonious, those who pretend to be holy, and they are numerous in these days in 21st century!

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Healing in synagogue and family ...

You have to exorcise the evil ones to bring back holiness to it; it can be a physical place, an institution, an organization. To give it back its pristine sanctity an exorcism is necessary, and it may come about through prophets, saints, poets, writers, and many others.

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