Love!
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Cycle A
(Ex 22:20-26; 1The 1:5c-10; Mt 22:34-40)
I write this reflection fromKigali,Rwanda. It has not been that easy to write this for several reasons. TodayKigalilooks very beautiful – perhaps the most beautiful African city I have ever visited. People are all smiles – very friendly and cordial. But in 1994, this was the epicentre of the grotesque story where neighbours and friends turned against each other. In a matter of three months almost one million people were killed, just because they belonged to two different social groups. As much as 20% of the population was wiped out in a nation that boasts of perhaps the highest Christian population in the African continent: with almost 95% Christians, and 56% Catholic!
It is easy to raise questions about how these Christians lived the commandment or love, or failed to practise it! Doing a soul-searching myself, I know, I […]