II Tim. 3:10-15, Luke 18:10-14
Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican
Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican
Yesterday, the reading of the Gospel has taught us perseverance in prayer, and now she teaches humility, or the feeling of not having the right to be heard. Do not assume you have the right to be heard, but approaching prayer as someone who is unworthy of any attention, not allowing you the necessary courage to open your mouth and raise prayer to God, knowing the Lord's infinite condescension towards us, who are poor.
Do not even allow to come to your mind the idea: "I did so and so, so give me such and such a thing. " Consider what you could do as your requirement. If you did not, you would have been subject to sanctions, and what you have done, is really nothing that rewards: you did nothing special.
This Pharisee enumerated rights to be heard, and he left the church with nothing. Evil is not that he actually acted like he had said, as indeed it should have done. Evil is that he presented as something special and that, having done so, he should forget about it.
Deliver us, O Lord, this sin of the Pharisee! We rarely talk like the Pharisee in words but in the feelings of the heart, it is rarely different from him. For why people pray they evil? That's because they think very well in the eyes of God, even without praying.
Version French Claude Lopez-Ginisty
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