Reading and meditation on the Word of God on Monday of the first week of Lent, March 10, 2025

Delivered by Father Peter Tukan, SDB from Salesian Don Bosco Gerak in the Diocese of Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Leviticus 19: 1-2.11-18; Rs psalm 19: 8.9.10.15; Matthew 25: 31-46THE COURT The theme for our meditation today is: The Court. Weall know that court institutions are always crowded. Court offices are crowdedwith various cases. Because there are so many cases and the trial requiresprocesses according to the existing legal system, the material files pile upfor a long time. A court hearing is also always flooded with manypeople. Generally, the supporters of the litigants make a crowd with all kindsof activities. They do that, both inside the courtroom and outside, with theirown motivations. In principle, there are only two parties who make or giveexpressions of support. The two parties are those who are litigants. Thejustice enforcer is the referee. The ultimate goal of the court is to achieve the truthlegally. The facts revealed are accompanied by evidence to support the truth.As long as we are in this world and are part of a country, we are of courseasked to obey the legal system in doing things. Those who are involved in it,whether as winners or losers, the truth of the law is binding and final.  But the truth of this law has weaknesses as long as weare in this world. One of them is that the binding and final judge'sdetermination can still be canceled at another time, if there is other evidenceto support it, or there is a referee with higher authority to cancel it. Inshort, if the courts in the world have weaknesses, then we believers want thereto be a perfect court, and this court is not in this world. The perfect judgment is the one done by God. The titleof the case is only once, which is called the last court. Those who go throughthings are souls who crave safety. The decision set to each party is permanentand irrevocable. We go to that final court only to get the verdict read: I willbe put into the group at the right hand of God, or vice versa at his left. Being on the right means destined to survive and behappy. To be on the left means to be condemned to enter into eternal suffering.Actually, there are a lot of cases happening in the world. Every reprimand,criticism, input, and punishment we get in the world is the form of the case weface. All of that determines whether or not we are worthy to enter the finalcourt table after our death.Let us pray. In the name of the Father... O Lord, be ourdefenders when we face every court in the world. Hail Mary full of grace ... Inthe name of the Father...