Message from Pastor

Dear brothers and sisters,

 

In his report as prisoner 119,104 at the Auschwitz concentration camp, Viktor Frankl highlighted a crucial moment in the life of a person interned in an extermination camp. In a context of brutality, where human beings were deprived of all capacity for choice, an inner struggle ensued in which the prisoner faced the choice of renouncing or not renouncing their own humanity. They could decide to abandon themselves to their fate as if they were animals, or, instead, fight to remain unchanged and maintain their moral principles and their own dignity. This inner decision, even if it did not change things, was decisive in giving meaning to one’s own existence.

 

Jesus was a teacher of the inner life, and for this reason, he reminded us that any rule we have in life must be lived from within with consistency. Those commandments that so disturb the relativistic individualism of our time lose all their value when they are not internalized and lived with authenticity and purity of heart.

 

There was a time when many Christians found refuge in simply adhering to socially accepted norms that gave them security. Today, we live exposed to the harsh realities of relativism, and therefore, if our lives are not built upon the personalization of faith and the consequences it has on our behavior, we can hardly achieve consistency and integrity.

 

Jesus did not come to frivolously eliminate rules, but rather to place them within each person, to draw us out of the complacency of mere compliance and propel us toward the excellence of authenticity. It is there, within ourselves, that the good we are called to do is woven, and where our union with the God in whom we believe is deepened and experienced. In a social context that questions objective principles and evokes the loneliness of relativism in many people, we Christians see in the teachings of Jesus a compass that guides us toward happiness and a secure foundation upon which to firmly build our inner life. In this way, we can live with a peace that not even the harshest of circumstances can steal from us.

 

Happy Sunday!

 

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