Tuesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time
(Proverbs 21:1-6.10-13;
Luke 8:19-21)
“The Lord
is kind and merciful” one of the psalms says.
God’s people are to imitate these qualities. The Book of Proverbs can be
seen as their text with Jesus as their great teacher.
Humility,
the virtue of thinking less of oneself and more of others, is vital to the
task. So, today’s passage from Proverbs says
that “haughty eyes and a proud heart” lead to sin. Attention to the needs of others leads to both
mercy and kindness. So, we read that one
is not to shut his or her “ear to the cry of the poor.”
Long ago,
children watching on TV “The Mickey Mouse Club” were told that proverbs make
them “better Mouseketeers.” It did not
have to be said, but it is true, that a good Mouseketeer is also a healthy
child of God.
