THE HOLY WEEK OF HYPOCRITES

 

HYPOCRITES abound this season of the year. 

We hear of bishops allowing priests to officiate mass in Malacañang but at the same time prohibiting and/or discouraging these same priests from accepting invitations from groups opposed to the President. 

We hear of bishops saying it is not their “business” to call for President Arroyo’s resignation, yet, in a not-so-distant past, they were instrumental in ousting two previous administrations.  They did not invoke their misplaced concept of “separation of Church and State” then but they are unsurprisingly invoking it now. 

We hear of other Christian leaders sing songs of praise and glory to the Almighty almost on a daily basis, but their defeaning silence on the issues of the day reveal who they really are.

We see throngs of people go to Church and pray at this time of the year, but after brief moments of religious infatuation, they return to their old selves at the first crack of dawn of Monday after Easter Sunday — as gossipers, mudslingers, opportunists, adulterers, perverts and the like. 

We see politicians craving for seats in the front row of every televised mass in order to be seen by their constituents as God-fearing public servants. 

We hear of rich people donate large sums of money to the Church in the hope of mitigating their sins and to show-off their calculated generosity to the public. 

And lastly, every year, we have a President who gives a routinary Lenten Message of hope, peace, sacrifice and prayer.  Well, I’m not at all surprised.  Even the Devil can quote the Bible. 

I don’t want to be a hypocrite.   And since I don’t want to, I will just stay at home and watch Barney with my one-year old kid.  Make love to my wife.  Eat.  Rest.  Surf the net.  And of course pray where no one else will see and hear me. 

(picture lifted from time.com)