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Dear brothers and sisters!

 

As the new school year begins, I'm beginning to realize how the rhythm of the school calendar influences us, giving us the feeling that the year begins every time September approaches. Starting something a new and resuming all those relationships that make up our daily lives is an antidote to routine and an opportunity to face life with a renewed outlook and strengthened enthusiasm.

 

Because routine is an intoxication that dries up enthusiasm and blocks new initiatives; a disease that turns our personal relationships gray and chills love, locking us into entrenched positions from which it is difficult to extricate ourselves.

 

On this Sunday, Jesus warns us of the danger of a routine faith and a soulless religiosity that has no impact on life and ends up turning God into a complete stranger. He invites us to shake off the arrogance of believing ourselves to be first; the conformism of those who already believe themselves good enough; the comfort and routine that gray out faith and extinguish vitality. Therefore, in the specific situation in which we find ourselves, today we are invited to renew our outlook on life to discover a Jesus who walks, speaks, breathes, and works with us in the situations of every day.

 

Let us nourish our enthusiasm and hope to see everyday situations with fresh eyes, even if this means having to choose more than once the narrow and demanding door of humility, forgiveness, understanding, and acceptance of others with their flaws.

 

Let us not allow inertia and disenchantment to turn us into sad people who transmit pessimism and weariness instead of spreading the joy of the Gospel. Let us begin anew, renewing each day with our attitudes toward others that joy that springs from our encounter with Jesus.

 

Happy Sunday!

 

 

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