You Are the Witnesses

We all know that time goes by so fast. Yesterday is already miles behind us. Tomorrow is already here. Our plans seem to be so far away, but actually they are right here. So we're running around trying to achieve something, constantly worried about our present or our future. This is our life in the 21st century.

If we just stop for a minute and take a deep breath, this rat race could change. In yesterday's Gospel the last sentence said: You are the witness of these things. This statement is so powerful. You are the witnesses. It is so real, so painfully real in our time. Being so busy with many duties, children, different sports we do not see what Christ said. "You are the witnesses of these things."

This is a good time to ask ourselves what we really testify. Are we testifying Christ who is like us? Is he the nice guy who just enjoys whatever makes people happy? Is he a socialist calling to feed all the poor and cheer up the sad? Is he a fighter pleasing our desires? Or is he the Son of God that loved us so much that He decided to accept every heavy piece of pain, extreme suffering, to save us from our wrongdoings? What Christ do we really testify?

We cannot witness what we do not know. We cannot witness Christ if we made him according to ourselves. This call from the Gospel is a call upon our conscience. Whom do we testify in our life according to our conscience, built on Christ?

For some time I've been meditating about the life of the real Church. It amazes me how people listening to the disciples of Jesus Christ were able to open themselves up to the truth. They didn't have so many volumes of theology, documents of the Church, rules and precepts, and at the same time all of them believed in God knowing exactly what they had to do.

I think our modern communities, dioceses, and the universal Church is missing one very important element. It is the original openness to the Holy Spirit. We've lost the internal sensitivity to His presence in our life, to hear His voice. So much focus on so many tasks made by ourselves, has made us deaf and empty and because of this we cannot testify anymore. It is time to drop the old habits and to became alive in the Holy Spirit again, because we are the witnesses of these things.