Sunday VI of Ordinary Time
February 15
Mt 5, 17-37
As the Argentine poet Francisco Luis Bernárdez knew how to see, “what the tree has in bloom, lives from what it has buried.” Wisdom is synonymous with radicality, just as it is with depth. Because radicality has nothing to do with extreme, rigid, or overly demanding postures, as that term sometimes seems to be understood in colloquial language. It is radical who lives from the roots and from there is born his gaze, his feeling and his action; in other words, it is radical who understands himself in depth.
Many times we allow ourselves to remain on the mere surface and, therefore, on the appearance of things. It is not strange, in such a case, that our existence is marked by a feeling of emptiness or even of meaninglessness. *Disconnected from the roots -from our own background- we can barely survive or live poorly* in a flat everyday life, at the mercy of what happens.
It may be that, at that level of appearance, we strive to live according to a certain code or belief, which we have assumed as a norm of coexistence or even as a paradigm of ethical behavior. But if it does not come from the root -from the experiential understanding of what we are- it will not go beyond being a set of empty rules.
Wise people – like Jesus, in the text we are commenting on today – transcend all kinds of codes and invite us to go to the root, aware that, only from the understanding of what we are, life will be able to flow, in the midst of any circumstance.
**Enrique Martínez Lozano**
(Weekly bulletin)
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