“If your righteousness is not greater than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Mt. 5:20-26)

If our righteousness is not different, we will remain in mediocrity, in the multitude that lives as if God did not exist, as if He were a ghost, as if the criteria to live by were those of the world, as if the law was the survival of the fittest…

We should be differentiated by meekness, by mercy, by the ability to love, to serve, to live life in a Christian way, walking and working together for a Synodal Church, with happy faces full of love, because love comes from the heart and not just from the skin or from “chemistry” or from feeling good about some people and rejecting others.

In this passage Jesus also speaks to us of the offering at the altar.  If you “remember that your brother has some grievance against you”… It doesn’t tell us that if we have something against the brother, but that if anyone has a complaint against us… We need to purify our behavior first rather than trying to straighten out the lives of others. And we cannot be at peace with God unless we are at peace with our fellow human beings.

May God give us the strength to be true Christians, that is, disciples.