LOOK AT MY SERVANT, MY CHOSEN ONE. Matthew 12:14-21

When Jesus walked the roads of Galilee proclaiming the kingdom of God and healing many sick people, He felt compassion for the crowds.

The true remedy for the wounds of our world (whether material wounds, such as hunger and injustice, or psychological and moral wounds, caused by false well-being) is a rule of life based on fraternal love, which has its source in the love of God. This is why it is necessary to abandon the path of arrogance, of violence used to gain ever greater positions of power, to ensure human success at all costs. It is also necessary to renounce the aggressive style in order to adopt a reasonable attitude of meekness.

The irritation of the Pharisees had reached its extreme. They could no longer tolerate that this man, as they called him contemptuously, continued to say the things he said. And in this we cannot fail to find the mystery of human pride that in the face of God’s beauty is capable of closing itself off and not seeing what intelligence manages to touch so clearly.