‘Mine” was the first word my younger brother ever learned, thanks to the anxieties of his big brother, who had to draw limits on what toys he would share and what he would keep. That was a harsh lesson but…
what he would keep. That was a harsh lesson but not the ungracious response of the older brother to the return of his prodigal sibling, who, after all, had not starved to death or been lost in a foreign country.
Dad was happy, over the moon. “Kill the fatted calf” — as if the Pope was visiting or better yet the King. As if what he had saved for a burnt offering were no longer needed, now that what he would have sacrificed for — even more than he already had — was back safe and sound. We are asked to do no less. We are asked, indeed, to answer such temptations with the most powerful of gifts: love.
The temptation to wish wrong on others, however “provoked” we may feel, is not something we can abandon lightly. Indeed our own survival — of soul even more than body — may depend on this counterinstinct: to rise to the bait not at all but to rise above all the pain and grief we rightly, or self-righteously, may feel, and seek the grueling sacrificial path of the Christ who leads us to a glory beyond shame or resentment, hate or indifference.
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