collectors and sinners joined Jesus and his disciples.When the Pharisees saw this, they said to
his disciples,
“Why is it, that your master eats with sinners and tax collectors?”
When Jesus heard this, he said, “Healthy people do not need a doctor, but sick people do.
Go, and find out what this means: What I want is mercy, not sacrifice. I did not come to call
the righteous, but sinners.”
Reflect:
The movie My Sister’s Keeper begins with these words (voice over) of Anna, the protagonist:
“Most babies are coincidences […], products of drunken evenings and lack of birth control.
They're accidents.” Really? Compare these words with those of Yahweh: “Before I formed you
in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you” (Jer 1:5). The modern
world suffers from the loss of the sense of vocation and the perception of life as meaningless
accident. Even within the Church, we have circumscribed the sense of vocation to priests
and religious, and go on lamenting about the “lack of vocations!” Every human being on earth
has received a vocation and consequently a mission which is uniquely his/ hers, and which
no one else can substitute. On this day when we meditate on the call of Matthew, let us listen
to the plea of St. Paul (first reading): “Live the vocation you have received!”
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