Mc 4,21-25 – Thursday of the Third Week of Ordinary Time
«Do you perhaps bring the lamp to put it under the bushel or under the bed? Or rather to put it on the skylight? In fact, there is nothing hidden that should not be revealed and nothing secret that should not be brought to light.” Today’s Gospel should be read especially by those people who they have difficulty esteeming themselves.
In fact, many of us do not recognize the good we bring and for this very reason we do not bring it out, do not put it high up, do not make it visible to everyone. This is very different from narcissists, who instead flaunt their lives and constantly live as if they were in the window of an important shop. Jesus is not inviting the display of lightbut simply not to mortify or hide what is beautiful and true in our life, because when we hide what is beautiful and true in our life, we also deprive others of light of that beauty and that truth.
Christianity should be that great education to discover what good lives within us and at the same time to know how to fully exploit it. It has already happened many times in history, otherwise we would not have had extraordinary churches, wonderful works of art, immense masterpieces of literature and poetry, giants of charity, entrepreneurs of hope. In short, all those who have left a mark on life and history have done so because they did not hide the light. So, today’s Gospel page clearly asks us what light I am the bearer of? and above all what am I doing with this light? But we must be careful, because no one can answer this question by saying: “I believe I have no light”, because stating something like this means stating that God does things badly. But God always does things well, with perfection, but it’s just a matter of having eyes to notice of this good and this perfection. We all come from the hands of God, and for this very reason we are all bearers of a spark of light.
